#1555: Demagogue – The Life Of Senator Joe McCarthy | The Best Of Our Knowledge

July 10, 2020 00:27:30
#1555: Demagogue – The Life Of Senator Joe McCarthy | The Best Of Our Knowledge
The Best Of Our Knowledge
#1555: Demagogue – The Life Of Senator Joe McCarthy | The Best Of Our Knowledge

Jul 10 2020 | 00:27:30

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Show Notes

On this week’s The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about the new biography Demagogue – The Life and Long Shadow Of Senator Joe McCarthy, by author Larry Tye. For a short time beginning in 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy was one of the most powerful political figures in the nation. Seven years later, he died […]

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