When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centred on power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both. The strengths and weaknesses of the man and the system that permitted his rise are explored in this authoritative, lucid biography, which sets McCarthy's life against a teeming backdrop of world affairs and struggles between military and political rivals at home.
- ISBN13 9780618610587
- Publish Date 1 December 2009
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 23 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Houghton Mifflin
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English