CONTRIBUTORS
Sep 01, 2020
1 minute
Larry Tye
“Historians have given President Eisenhower an undeserved free pass regarding Senator Joe McCarthy, saying he was right to let the senator do himself in rather than face him head-on,” says Tye, whose new, was released in July. “That might be okay if McCarthy hadn’t ruined so many lives in the interim.” In “The President and the Bully” (page 38), Tye tries to rebalance the narrative “by faulting our war-hero president for not directly confronting the rabble-rousing senator.”
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