Contents

• Prologue: More powerful than the president
• Chickens, groceries, and a high school diploma
• Days and nights at Marquette
• Joe’s first campaign
• Judge McCarthy
• "Tail Gunner Joe"
• One fight ends, another begins
• Defeating a legend
• Newcomer in Washington
• Charges of torture
• The speech that started it all
• Where’s the evidence?
• "The top Russian spy"
• War breaks out in Korea
• Revenge
• "We like Ike!"
• The missing paragraph
• "I can investigate anybody"
• Cohn and Schine go to Europe
• McCarthy gets married
• The dangerous dentist
• Grilling General Zwicker
• Exposed on television
• A devastating report
• McCarthy on the receiving end
• "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
• Censured
• "His time to die"
• Epilogue: Another McCarthy?
• After McCarthy’s death