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Title: Interesting
Review: The premise of this book is interesting - a thoughtfull review of Senator Joe McCarthy's rise and fall - given the wave of new documents released by the KGB. Once and for all, Arthur Herman contends, we can examine - objectively - some of McCarthy's claims which had long been though baseless. The only problem, however, is that Herman seems to rely too much upon a previous work, David Oshinsky's Conspiracy So Immense, which remains the standard book on McCarthy and the McCarthy era. Herman passes off a lot of research as original when Oshinksy explored the themes a decade earlier in his masterful work. For those interested, I recommend A Conspiracy So Immense for the definitive accounting of the life and times of Joe McCarthy.
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