Today I have a few words to say about my latest book, the title of which appears above. A HOUSE DIVIDED is the story of the political battle of 1952 through 1954 between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for the political leadership of the Republican Party and the moral leadership of the nation.
Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the climactic struggle between "Ike" and "Joe" played itself out amidst the machinations of larger-than-life historical figures such as Stalin, Churchill, Truman, Nixon, Taft, Marshall, Joe Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy,Roy Cohn, Ed Murrow, Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
The Ike-McCarthy political war was fought on a battlefield undergirded by Russia's emergence as a nuclear power, the Korean War, the "Red Scare," and the tumultuous Army-McCarthy Hearings of 1954.
My work is history but I like to think that it is not dry. Rather it relates a three-year story of high drama, human emotions on display at government's top levels, pride, prejudice, cowardice and courage.
The colorful characters alone could have provided the stuff for a good novel were it not for the fact that the actual facts were more intriguing than fiction. For more, visit amazon.com and createspace.com.