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The Age Of Anxiety: Mccarthyism To Terrorism [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
by Johnson, Haynes
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Minor edgewear to dust jacket and mild sun-fading to its spine. Book has softening to the base fo the spine. By the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Herblock: The Life and Work of the Great Political Cartoonist' and 'The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of our citizens. In this masterful history, Haynes Johnson re-creates that time of crisis-of President Eisenhower, who hated McCarthy but would not attack him; of the Republican senators who cynically used McCarthy to win their own elections; of Edward R. Murrow, whose courageous TV broadcast began McCarthy's downfall; and of mild-mannered lawyer Joseph Welch, who finally shamed McCarthy into silence. Johnson tells this monumental story through the lens of its relevance to our own time, when fear again affects American behavior and attitudes, for he believes now, as then, that our civil liberties, our Constitution, and our nation are at stake as we confront the ever more difficult task of balancing the need for national security with that of personal liberty. Compelling narrative history, insightful political commentary, and intimate personal remembrance combine to make The Age of Anxiety a vitally important book for our time. Extremism-and the suspicion and hatred it engenders-may be Joe McCarthy's most lasting legacy . . . For these and other reasons, while McCarthy and the leading players of his time- Truman and Acheson, Eisenhower and Nixon, the Kennedy brothers and LBJ, Cohn and Schine, Stalin and Mao-have long since passed from the scene, McCarthyism remains a story without an end . -f rom the book.
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- The Age Of Anxiety: Mccarthyism To Terrorism [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
- Author
- Johnson, Haynes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
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- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151010625
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010622
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 609
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