Lessons We Should Have Learned: Joe McCarthy

Cover of Demagogue, Larry Tye's biography of Joe McCarthy

Consummate journalist & author,Larry Tye shares about his new book, DEMAGOGUE: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, full of lessons completely applicable to today, especially considering that the McCarthy playbook was passed directly to his assistant, Roy Cohn, and from Roy to Donald Trump. Larry Tye makes history accessible & enthralling, and serves it up for the betterment of the world. Larry worked at the Boston Globe and a number of other newspapers before writing 8 books (as of the present moment) and founding the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship.

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Lessons We Should Have Learned: Joe McCarthy
BONUS: Superman the Jewish Hero
BONUS: History vs Journalism
BONUS: Deep Sources & Method
BONUS: John Dean & Other Comments
BONUS: McCarthy's Good Side
BONUS: McCarthy's Anti-communist Launch
Larry Tye
Joseph McCarthy
Communism
Red-baiting
Demagogue
Roy Cohn
Bobby Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Edward Murrow
Drew Pearson
Health Coverage Fellowship
Jewish

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