100500949530 Richard H. Rovere http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RAE2R8TFL._SX80_.jpg 7.37497 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. 2