History's Difference Makers: Ike and McCarthy

Next year will mark the 60th anniversary of the Army- McCarthy hearings. It is also the year I plan to publish my new work of historical non-fiction, "A House Divided, The Story of Ike and McCarthy." Right now I'm just enjoying the ride, writing and editing this work in progress. I have changed the title three times since I began drafting in early Spring,finally choosing "A House Divided" after finding in my research a 1954 quote from Adlai Stevenson that "a party divided, half Eisenhower and half McCarthy,can never achieve unity." But Stevenson's quote did more than give me a title. More importantly, it allowed me to focus on and hone one of the main themes of my book, that a nation polarized by bitter and divisive moral disputes will gradually have its vitality eroded and become a lesser force for good for its own people and for the world. We are afflicted with such a malady in 2013 America just as we were in 1953 and 1861.
D.J.Farinacci
7/19/13
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History's Difference-Makers

Donald J. Farinacci
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