Cynthia’s Reviews > The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America > Status Update

""Senator Joseph McCarthy had whipped up the fear of Communist infiltrators with his inflammatory rhetoric. *Man the watchtowers of the Nation* he scold... *Be vigilant day and night*. Being vigilant was generally the opposite of feeling neighborly ...bonds of friendship and kinship made every stranger a potential acquaintance. The world of vigilance suggested the opposite: every stranger might bring danger."'