Covering McCarthyism: How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954

by Lawrence N. Strout

Strout examines how the Christian Science Monitor, a highly influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through his censure in December 1954. Through his in-depth examination of the Monitor's interoffice communications, Strout examines how the Monitor's coverage compared with other elite and popular press newspapers and how the pressures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313310912
• ISBN13: 9780313310911
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.8"