Dr. Carroll dispels the myths surrounding the memory of Senator McCarthy, a man much slandered. McCarthy was a devout Catholic, and worked to establish justice.

“So pervasive has the myth about Senator McCarthy become that I have had students from my alma mater college in Maine telephone me to interview me, as a man old enough to remember McCarthy’s day, to ask what it was like and to say how terrible it must have been to have lived in his time. They were astonished when I told them that everything was perfectly normal then and just like today.”