Lead and Gold

And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lo...

Marks and Co, an antiquarian book seller in London, played a starring role in Helene Hanff's 1970 best seller 84 Charing Cross Road . ...

The Tydings committee was official Washington's first attempt to derail Sen. Joseph McCarthy's crusade against the communist infil...

In the morality play that serves as the history of the "Red Scare" few crimes rank higher than ex-communists who named their for...

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., unlike these other reviewers, was never part of the Marxist or Stalinist left. He was a liberal -- a Democrat in ...

The frozen narrative of McCarthy's unique evil was not built solely with books like Richard Rovere's and Jack Anderson's. It...

The first serious biography of Sen. Joseph McCarthy was written by Richard Rovere of the New Yorker magazine. It was immediately hailed a...

When Robert Warshow reviewed The Crucible in 1953 he noted that Arthur Miller had shown an "almost contemptuous lack of interest...

When journalists talk about the McCarthy era they rarely cite nonfiction books. After smugly declaring that "McCarthy never caught a...

Another charge against McCarthy is that he somehow unleashed a reign of terror that stifled dissent and unleashed a wave of conformity acr...

In his interview with Leo Cherne , WFB pressed his guest to define what made McCarthy uniquely evil. That is, why are McCarthy's metho...