Joe McCarthy and the Press

by Edwin R. Bayley

Overview

This is a book for historians, journalists—and for all of us who need to remember this turbulent time on our nation's past, and its lessons for today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299086237
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	10/22/1981
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Edwin R. Bayley was a political reporter at the Milwaukee State Journal from 1946 to 1959. He later worked in the Kennedy Administration and became dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

1. When It All Started

2. The Floundering Press

3. The Wire Services, McCarthy's Conduit

4. The 1952 Election

5. The "Camp-Following, Mocking-Bird, Bleeding-Heart, Left-Wing" Press

6. Four Crises in Television

7. Summing Up

Appendix: Tables and List of Stories in the Last Week of the 1952 Campaign

Notes

Sources

Index

Editorial Reviews

"No one who cares about liberty will read Mr. Bayley's masterful study without a shudder about the journalistic cop-outs that contributed to making the nightmare called McCarthyism. This book reminds us that it could happen here, but perhaps will make it harder to happen next time."—Daniel Schorr

"Thorough, incisive and fascinating, this is the best account we have of the strange relationship between Joe McCarthy and the American press."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

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