An appraisal of the years during which Joseph R. McCarthy conducted his Communist witch-hunt from the floor of the United States Senate

Senator Joe McCarthy

Biographies & Memoirs

ROVERE,Richard H.

Leaders & Notable People

Harpercollins College Div

Describes the activities of two disreputable lawyers whose clientele consisted of criminals and the entertainment industry

Howe and Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History

Legal Theory & Systems

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

A collection of newspaper articles discussing emphasis placed on national loyalty and security in the United States.

Loyalty and Security in a Democratic State (The Great Contemporary Issues)

Politics & Social Sciences

BROWN, GENE

Politics & Government

Ayer Co. Pub

The story of Senator Joseph McCarthy's rise to unprecedented power and the decline of his influence is a dramatic one. Richard Rovere documents the process by which a clever, power hungry individual came to mislead and manipulate members of Congress and the American public and to damage countless lives. A new foreword for this edition by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. places the book in historical context and relates it to current issues in American public life.

Historical

University of California Press

Meridian Books

Borgo Pr

In its day, the firm of Howe &amp; Hummel was the most successful - and notorious - criminal law office in the city of New York. Between 1869, when it was organized, and 1907, when the district attorney put it out of business, the firm defended more than a thousand people indicted for murder or manslaughter and seemed to have a monopoly on the rest of the criminal business in New York, as well. Howe and Hummel were also preeminent among divorce lawyers and theatrical lawyers, representing such figures as P. T. Barnum, Edwin Booth, John Barrymore, and Lillie Langtry. When John L. Sullivan and Alf Greenfield were indicted for "fighting without weapons" in Madison Square Garden, Howe and Hummel won their acquittal. Mother Mandelbaum, the queen of New York's underworld and chief American fence, paid them a hefty yearly retainer to defend her and her stable of thieves. Charles O. Brockway, a counterfeiter so adept that he once caused the United States Treasury to withdraw a batch of $100 bills, engaged them in his defense. Whenever Lillian Russell wanted a new husband, Howe and Hummel were the lawyers who freed her from the old one. They could find, as Richard Rovere writes, "loopholes large enough for convicted murderers to walk through standing up." Howe &amp; Hummel tells the story of this raffish pair, their famous and infamous clients, and their bold methods of operation. It was a bestseller when it first appeared in 1947, and this new edition - introduced by Calvin Trillin - is sure to delight a new generation of readers.

Howe & Hummel: Their True and Scandalous History

Business & Money

Economics

Syracuse Univ Pr

Howe and Their True and Scandalous History [Nov 01, 1985] Rovere, Richard H.

Howe and Hummel

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

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Large Print Edition  This book was first published in 1951 as The General and the President after President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean Warâ€•a memorably explosive incident in American political history. But its significance extends far beyond a dramatic episode in the nation’s past. This literate and ironic work continues to be an invaluable guide to the conflict between civilian and military authority, and it illuminates laterâ€•and currentâ€•controversies over the role the United States should play in Asian affairs.  This new edition is graced by a remarkable introductory essay by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. The text is reprinted from the 1965 republication under the title The MacArthur Controversy, that is, the book as originally written with a few tenses altered and a few topical allusions deleted.  General MacArthur and President Truman will be of special interest to students of American diplomacy, politics, and culture and to all concerned with the relationship between the armed forces and larger society.

General Macarthur & President Truman: The Struggle for Control of American Foreign Policy

SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR MEIER

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Transaction Pub Large Print

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