Synopses & Reviews
This excitingly readable biography will be remembered...a complete page-turner.-- Publishers Weekly
Review
"The first full-scale, intensively researched McCarthy biography. What Mr. Reeves has done is to substitute for the broad-brush denunciation of McCarthy a more complex portait of a politician, not lacking in intelligence or even a certain shaggy likability, who destroyed himself because of faults both of the head and of the heart. Everything is there in striking fullness. Compelling." The New York Times
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"This excitingly readable biography will be remembered. Reeves portrays America's most celebrated demagogue as a brash, ruthless political showman who learned virtually by accident in Wisconsin politics how to play the press for headlines and the portait makes the book throughout its great length a complete page-turner." Publishers Weekly