Books by Shelby Scates

A memoir that combines idealism, persistence, skepticism, and dedication to truthful reporting that marks some of the best of the American journalism.

Maurice Rosenblatt was one of the behind-the-scenes engineers of the 1954 overthrow of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the anti-Communist chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. This book tells the story of the rise of McCarthy's power and Rosenblatt's role in effecting McCarthy's eventual censure by the Senate.