Senator Joe McCarthy: The original polarizing political figure
Jul 07, 2020
2 minutes
It has been said that the central task of a biographer is revision. It was part of Larry Tye’s mission in his 2016 book “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” and that revisionism becomes doubly important when it comes to the subject of Tye’s new book, “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy.”
As Tye points out immediately, McCarthy is part of a comparatively tiny
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