Senator Joe McCarthy Author:Richard H. Rovere An appraisal of Senator McCarthy without apology. If its judgments are uncompromising, they are also given without rancor, indeed with an air of almost sympathetic curiosity about the phenomenon that was McCarthy...It is no surprise that Rovere's book is a vividly written, sophisticated re-creation of a political episode whose manic qualities a... more »lready begin to seem unbelievable.« less