Research Catalog

Title

Hard years : antidotes to authoritarians / Eugene McCarthy.

Author

McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005

Publication

Lone Oak Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

214 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-2005

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Institutions -- Toward a more responsible presidency -- The vice president as crown prince -- Changers in the Congress -- The courts, the last-appeal -- Court of ideas -- A kind word for the bureaucrats -- A kind word for the military -- A warning about the miliary establishment -- The CIA and the inner ring -- The corporations -- The universities -- The Democratic and Republican parties -- Alternatives to the major parties -- pt. 2. Operations -- A hard look at the primaries -- Personality cuts -- The cult of the expert -- A good and becoming exit -- Listen to Mr. Parkinson-- The SST : object lesson in dynamics of opposition -- The lobbyists -- Grant Park ; Chicago -- Marching on Washington -- Changing America -- pt. 3. Principles -- Innocence in politics -- Language and politics -- Poetry and war -- Ares -- Intellectuals and politics -- Out of phase -- Trouble in the economics community -- Constitutional amendments -- Five systems of justice -- The enemies list -- Censorship -- pt. 4. A good person is not so hard to find -- John Bennett -- Emerson Hynes -- John Kennedy -- Dan and Doris Kimball -- Robert Lowell -- Wayne Morse -- Lewis Mumford -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Frank Rosenblatt -- Adlai Stevenson.

ISBN

1883477387

OCLC

• 49834808
• SCSB-11262752

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library