The Age of Anxiety

By: Source: AARP.org Date Posted: 2005-11-15 11:43:00-05:00

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We may think politicians are dirty now, but the king of smear campaigns and fear-mongering may have been the one and only Senator Joseph McCarthy. In his new book, The Age of Anxiety, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Haynes Johnson examines the Cold War paranoia driving the politician's rise and fall.

Johnson joins host Mike Cuthbert for an incisive conversation about McCarthy's tactics and the striking parallels between the Red Scare and today's War on Terror.

Listen to: The Age of Anxiety

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