No Sense of Decency
The Army-McCarthy Hearings : a Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics
Description:... "In a seminal American moment in the spring of 1954, dramatic hearings in the United States Senate pitted Joseph R. McCarthy, the Senate's great intimidator, and his slick and fearless chief counsel Roy Cohn, against the United States Army, President Dwight Eisenhower, and the rest of the political establishment. What made the confrontation unprecedented and magnified its impact was gavel-to-gavel coverage by television. Long before CNN or C-SPAN, TV carried an ongoing news drama that captivated Americans from coast to coast. Thirty-six days of hearings transfixed the nation, sent McCarthy stumbling into the shadows, and set TV's "omnipotent eye" on course to dominate the political world." "With a veteran journalist's eye for detail, Robert Shogan re-creates the hearings and their cast of intriguing characters, and explains their enduring impact on American politics. Despite McCarthy's fall, Mr. Shogan points out, the hearings left a major item of unfinished business - the issue --
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