I have read this book and find it the readable equivalent of the Life and Times book I blasted earlier. A good read but no Herodotus.

At the end of World War II the United States entered into what might be called an era of anti-Communist fervor. Russia, formerly an ally, was now viewed as a threat to the "Free World". Following the Potsdam Conference and the murder of 15,000 Polish soldiers who had been captured by the Communists, President Truman was convinced of the Russians' bad faith. Then, as they took over territory in Eastern Europe, Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri in 1946, finally articulated what the world had feared. Hitler's dream of totalitarian domination had been merely replaced by Stalin's. A year later Truman asked Congress for $400 million in aid to anti-Communists in Greece and Turkey. The measure, known as the Truman Doctrine, symbolized the United States' willingness to prevent Soviet expansion.

At home, concerns about Communist sympathi- zers, subversives and fellow travellers increased. Truman issued an order in March , 1947 requiring 2,200,000 federal employees to sign a loyalty oath swearing that they had never been affiliated with any subversive organizations. The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) , America's watchdog against subversives, had a mandate to ferret out disloyal or suspect citizens. Their most notorious investigations were those of Hollywood actors and writers, many of whom had careers ruined as a result of blacklisting, and others who served federal prison sentences.

In this febrile climate appeared a brazen and opportunistic senator who made, on February 9, 1950 in Wheeling, West Virginia, one of the most inflammatory statements in U.S. history. He declared that he had in his hand a list of 205 names that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who, nevertheless, were still working and shaping policy in the State Department. Thus began the dubious career of the most infamous of all the anti-Communist witch hunters, and in the words of author Jim Tuck was "ignited a conflagration which would not subside until the senator's censure in 1954."

McCarthy was a late arrival to the anti-Communist forces. He had no comments to make when Cardinal Mindszenty was imprisoned and brainwashed in Poland by the Communists in 1949. Nor did the Wisconsin senator have anything to say when Alger Hiss, a State Department employee, was tried for espionage and convicted the following year. Both were major incidents, the former international and the latter national. During this period McCarthy was attacking federally-funded housing projects as a breeding ground for Communists, and challenging a Wisconsin news editor for being a Communist. In both cases the causes were parochial and personal. The editor was unfriendly to McCarthy in the one case, and he was being paid a fee by a housing developer in the other.

While Tuck is reluctant to accuse McCarthy of opportunism, it does seem that his failure to speak out in support of a Catholic cardinal being persecuted by the Russians, as well as his lack of interest in a major spy case, is indicative of the self- serving nature of McCarthy's anti-communist activities.

From 1950 to 1952 McCarthy grabbed headline after headline as he accused people of being Communists. His figure of 205 changed from 57 then to 81 with astoundingly little loss of credibility with the press or the American populace. Undeterred, he charged President Truman's speech writer of being a Communist, then he accused the founder of the Americans For Democratic Action. He stated that the wealthy Caroline Lloyd Strobell (who died in 1941) was a Communist, despite the fact that she had a $14 million interest in the right- wing Chicago Tribune, because she had once made a $1 donation to the Daily Worker.Finally he charged the Senate investigating group of covering up for friends in the State Depart- ment, and attacked the consul in Calcutta and twenty-nine others as being pro-Communist. Few of McCarthy's allegations were substanti- ated as the Wisconsin senator, like a loose cannon, fired off volley after volley, wantonly destroying careers. Nevertheless the headlines in the Hearst press read "Go To It, Joe!" and "McCarthy Flays Senate Probers." In addition, a Gallop poll showed that 50% of all Americans had a "favorable" opinion of his activities.

In 1952 when the Republicans took over the Senate, McCarthy's seniority entitled him to a post on the Senate Appropriations Committee. Instead, he opted for little-known Committee on Government Operations. What attracted him was one of its component parts: The Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations. He took over this subcommittee and began a series of investigatory hearings, including that of the Voice of America which resulted in the resignation of the acting chief. His commit- tee's probe of the Army was less successful, although he did manage to get an army dentist to resign. When during the course of the hearings, McCarthy viciously and gratuitously attacked the reputation of a young lawyer, however, he began his political downfall. "Have you no shame, sir?" asked Army Chief Counsel Joseph Welsh. "Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator...Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you no sense of decency?" When Welsh finished, the hearing room burst into applause. The next day, banner headlines proclaiming "Have You No Decency?" appeared in newspapers across the country. It was the beginning of the end.

Tuck's major contribution to this history is a lively style, an unbiased approach, and a careful examination of the role of the Hearst press in the rise and fall of Senator McCarthy. According to Tuck, William Randolph Hearst and his newspapers were in the forefront of the anti-Communist crusade, as was apparent from their coverage of events and their editorials from 1946 on. They were Red-haters with an apocalyptic stance who came out strongly in defense of Cardinal Mindszenty, and gave much coverage to the infamous Hiss trial.

Following McCarthy's speech in 1950 when he said he had the names of 205 Communists in the State Department, the Hearst papers gave McCarthy wide support in columns and editori- als. The enthusiasm of the Hearst press was at its peak during the 1952 elections, which resulted in a Republican landslide. Then followed a period of criticism and finally withdrawal of support (or even comment) by the Hearst press as McCarthy was finally censured by the Senate and moved into his reckless and alcoholically irrational period, charging even conservative Republicans with being soft on Communism. For McCarthy, this lack of comment or "brownout" by the Hearst press was the unkindest cut of all. Possessed of a drive for glory, hungry for public attention and for headlines, he now was ignored. On May 2, 1957, after again falling "off the wagon in a heap," he died of cirrhosis of the liver at Bethesda Naval Hospital.

Reckless, self-serving and opportunistic, McCarthy brought American to the brink of national paranoia and intolerance. As this disturbing book by Jim Tuck illustrates, he had a great deal of help along the way-- including that of the nation's most powerful publisher, and his editors and image makers. Without their help, he might never have come to power. Without their complicity, he surely would not have damaged so many lives.

For anyone who is really tired of reading what Leftists say "about" other people and who would like to hear what people have to say for themselves, this book, written by Senator McCarthy himself, enables the reader to learn what McCarthy said and believed, as opposed to reading what some left-winger says he said. Written in a "question and answer" format, Senator McCarthy informs the reader in a frank way, the real existence of the subversive forces seeking to ruin our nation. It is "his side of the story".

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Cardinal Ratzinger amazes me yet again in this well thought out book on the meaning of Christian brotherhood. In this short (90 pages) book Ratzinger sets out to analyze what the word brother means in the Christian view of the world. He starts with an analysis of how the word was used throughout history, from the ancient Greeks to the Jewish community. He then moves to the New Testament and analysis how Jesus uses the word, how it is used by Paul and finally by John. Ratzinger than analyzes how the term was used by the Church fathers, and there unique take on the subject. Throughout this process, Ratzinger gives great biblical insights connecting the Old Testament to the New Testament and informs the reader of the differences between the biblical understanding of brotherhood and our contemporary understanding of it, whether taught by the enlightenment, or Marxist philosophy. He also mentions some external elements that may have dictated certain definitions, when involved with analyzing the historical understanding of brotherhood. Ratzinger also gives a general overview of how unique and contrary to common understanding this teaching was at the time.

Ratzinger than demonstrates how this view is incorporated into Christian theology. He emphasizes the need to first properly understand the fatherhood of God, and how this is necessary to properly understand Christian brotherhood. How it is necessary to see this brotherhood through God's fatherhood and Christ's divine sonship by means of the Eucharist. He also briefly touches upon how vastly different this fatherhood concept in Christianity is from other forms of fatherhood found in other religions.

He then gives the historical barriers that were destroyed because of this newfound understanding. Whether it was to eliminate racial, national or economic boundaries, or to create, for the first time in history, a brotherhood where man and female are equals. He also gives the responsibility the Christian brother has to the non-believer. Cardinal Ratzinger than gives the limits of this unique understanding. This chapter is necessary to set the limits on how far you can take the meaning and to clarify what Ratzinger is not saying.

The final chapter deals with the relationship of this view of Christian brotherhood to the divine mission of Jesus Christ. Throughout this chapter, Ratzinger demonstrates how necessary it is to look at Christian brotherhood through Christ acts of Redemption and salvation history. He then delves into how this reflects on how we should act, as Christian brothers united to Christ. Throughout this process, Ratzinger gives wonderful insights and shows how Christian brotherhood, and only Christian brotherhood, truly gives the most unifying concept of brotherhood.

Ratzinger finishes the book with a short postscript on how Catholics view how Protestants fit into this overall understanding of Christian brotherhood. How, to Catholics, it fits well to call them "separated brethren". Which stresses both points that need to be stressed, when a Catholic addresses a protestant. The first is the need to let the protestant know that he is closer, much closer, to the brotherhood of the Church than the non-believer, but still needs to be reminded of Christ wish that the Church should be one.

One last point that needs to be mentioned, Scott Hahn only writes the foreword for this book. The book was written long before Scott Hahn became Catholic, so Scott Hahn merely praises the book and the author, on how influential they were to his conversion. With this in mind, this is definitely a very thought provoking book that needs to be read by everybody who is interested in the relationship of the Christian to the non-believer and how this is taught through salvation history.

This book will be useful to anyone who will be working in probability and is already acquainted with measure theory. It includes results that are not standard material for a real analysis text but that are of interest in probability. The author, who needs no introduction, uses simple examples (coin tossing, card shuffling) to illustrate how the "interesting, but imprecise real world" is represented in the "duller but more precise mathematical world", as well as the importance of keeping them apart. I know of no other publication where this is done as effectively and as beautifully as it is presented here. Each proof in this book is actually a sketch of its proof. This means that the reader does not get lost in details and sees the concepts transparently. The author also does a good job of limiting himself to what belongs to the title, as opposed to developing what would belong in a probability text.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in measure theory, whether or not their interest extends to probability.

This book introduces the reader to the world of cognitive science. The scientific discipline of accurately measuring communication processes, more commonly known as attitudes and opinions. A highly mathmatical theory of measuring and changing peoples attitudes is shown and compared to more traditional methods of doing so. One will find that Professor Woelfel has a theory which works in the real world and is many times more effective than any current attitide measurement practices

This was the main textbook for my Mass Media class at Trinity University. It was a very interesting book which had a lot of good things to say. I had never conceptualized television and radio as a for profit industry with structures governing their behavior just like the steel or automobile industry. The book does not waste tim eon boring chapters full of gory details about this and that medium of communication. It looks at all media as an integrated system. It was a little dry at times, but not to much for me as an undergraduate. All in all I doubt I could have asked for a better book to introduce me to mass media.

This dictionary helps address an important issue in medical communication: Just because you or the interpreter knows the correct sign for a medical term doesn't mean your deaf patient does. This spiral bound book is designed to be laid flat on a table during a medical interview. It not only illustrates the proper signs, it also gives definitions of medical terms in plain English. In addition, it defines many terms which would need to be fingerspelled because they have no established signs. There are anatomical diagrams in the back to assist with explanations as well. It does not discuss grammar and doesn't address Deaf culture as it relates to medical care, so it is not intended as a stand-alone book for medical professionals or interpreting students.

This book offers a view of medicine from every era. From the ancients to modern day, the pictures are illuminating. Although a picture is worth a 1000 words, the narration through the book is also very educational. One of the best books of its kind!