LARRY TYE is the best-selling author of Bobby Kennedy and Satchel, as well as Superman, The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and co-author, with Kitty Dukakis, of Shock. Previously an award-winning reporter and national writer at the Boston Globe and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, he now runs the Boston-based Health Coverage Fellowship. He lives in Massachusetts.
"For many contemporary readers, Joseph McCarthy is a done and
dusted relic for the history books, but Tye (Bobby Kennedy, 2016)
brings him back to ferocious life....Tye is an even-handed
reporter, tracking the truth of stories advanced by both McCarthy's
devotees and detractors....This is a must-read biography for anyone
fascinated by American history, and every reader will blanch at its
events' resemblances to today's fraught political conflicts."
--Booklist, STARRED "...a sure-handed account...searing and
informative portrait of [Senator Joseph McCarthy] and his specific
brand of self-aggrandizing demagoguery."
--Publishers Weekly "Meaty narrative...a timely examination of a
would-be savior whose name remains a byword for demagoguery."
--Kirkus Reviews "In an age when we see the resurrection of Senator
Joe McCarthy's tactics -- exaggeration and lies, guilt by
association, the smearing of political opponents, and above all the
acquiescence of enablers who know better -- Larry Tye's Demagogue
is a gripping, essential read. Drawing on records newly unsealed
after sixty years, Tye explains how McCarthy's fear-mongering
caught fire, offering timely insight into the rise of bullies and
what is required to defeat them."
--Samantha Power, former US ambassador to the United Nations and
New York Times bestselling author of The Education of an Idealist
"Larry Tye's Demagogue nails the defining biography of Joe
McCarthy. I grew up a Cold War kid watching it all on television. I
thought I knew it all, but Tye makes it real. To understand Donald
Trump, you have to understand Joe McCarthy first, and Tye's your
guide."
--John Kerry, former US Secretary of State "Tye has written a
fabulous, can't-put-down examination of one of the most dangerous
politicians in American history. But Demagogue is more than a
biography--it's a warning of the peril we are facing."
-- William Cohen, former US Secretary of Defense "As the demagogue
now in the Oval Office--mentored personally by McCarthy's
unscrupulous disciple Roy Cohn--asserts monarchical authority, it
has never been more urgent to have Larry Tye's definitive answers
to the questions: How did Joe McCarthy get power in America? And
how was he brought down?
-- Daniel Ellsberg, nuclear defense analyst and author of The
Doomsday Machine "Tye takes us, step by step, as one of America's
most dangerous right-wing populists learns how to use fear and
deception to vault his way into power and threaten our country's
most basic rights. The lessons for today are all too clear."
-- Steven Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die "This
well-crafted, deeply researched study of Joseph McCarthy and
McCarthyism reveals the awful consequences of demagoguery in
America, and its toll on our democracy. Tye provides not only
untold history, but an essential primer for the times of Trump. We
cannot ignore the lessons revealed in Larry Tye's narrative.
-- John W. Dean, former Nixon White House Counsel "Larry Tye's
deeply reported Demagogue accomplishes two essential tasks at once.
As first-rate biographies do, it lifts Joe McCarthy from stereotype
to vivid flesh, while also using the past to illuminate the
present.
-- David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good American
Family: The Red Scare and My Father "Fueled by a trove of newly
uncovered documents, Demagogue charts the legacy of Joe McCarthy,
reviled master of the political smear, through the malign tutelage
of McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn and directly to Donald J. Trump. A
must-read."
-- Richard Ben-Veniste, assistant Watergate special prosecutor and
author of The Emperor's New Clothes Larry Tye's razor smart and
riveting account is a timely, and dismaying, reminder of how hard
it is for American politics to turn on a demagogue who exploits our
fears. Joe McCarthy left few profiles in political courage in his
wake.
-- Tim Naftali, former director of the Nixon Presidential Library
and coauthor of Impeachment: An American History "There couldn't be
a more fitting time for Larry Tye to revisit the history of Senator
Joe McCarthy. Based on new archival findings, Demagogue tells the
story of one of the notorious senators in congressional history, a
legislator who destroyed lives, shattered reputations, and damaged
institutions until he eventually did himself in."
-- Julian Zelizer, author of Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich,
The Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party
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