The Riddle of a Bold Campaign: What Snapped Inside McCarthy?
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism , by Dominic Sandbrook. Alfred A. Knopf, 397 pages, $25.95.
Eugene McCarthy was steely and whimsical, inspired and doomed, gallant and cruel, self-possessed andself-destructive, thoughthelastgets mixed up with the issue of sacrifice. They used to burn people like him: He could see into dark places. Read More
