Event Details

End: May 10, 2021
Contact: levinsonr@freelibrary.org
More Info: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/103913

This five-part Zoom series on the life and career of Joe McCarthy includes presentations by Richard Norton Smith,

Beverly Gage, David Nasaw and Marie Brenner of Vanity Fair. This series, which is sponsored by the Free Library of Philadelphia, includes programs on March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 28th and concludes on May 10th.  All programs in the series will be presented at 7:30 P.M. To register for one or all of these programs, please email Richard Levinson at: levinsonr@freelibrary.org . Our blurb for this free series says:

 Lies. Alternative facts. Demonizing the opponent.

   Former Senator Joseph R. McCarthy(R-Wisconsin) has been dead for more than 60 years, but the political tools and techniques that he pioneered are very much alive.  They are as fresh as today's headlines.  The Free Library is proud to present a special series explores the life of an American demagogue and the dangerous legacy that he left behind.