Arthur Herman is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in history and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. His tenth book, The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World (Houghton Mifflin) will be published in August.
Joe McCarthy was neither grand inquisitor nor unscrupulous demagogue.
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