Her husband, the senator, as he winds up and does his thing. And its such a brilliant scene. I mean, its brilliant just in terms of the writing and in terms of whats happening in the plot, but so brilliant in the way its shot because even though shes in the room with him while he is causing this scene, shes physically in the same space as him, you can see the way its shot, that shes not actually looking at him in person. Shes paying attention to the screen, which you can also see in her field of vision. On the screen, she can see what he looks like on camera, on leave television, as he pulls off this stunt in a congressional hearing room with the secretary of defense. It is such a great scene. And yes, the guy you will sort of recognize halfway into it, is in fact frank sinotary, and hes amazing in this movie. This has been my Favorite Movie since i was a teenager for a reason. Just watch this. Mr. Secretary, i have a question, sir. Who are you, sir . I am United States senator john ic
Foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering and they are, oh my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated bringing author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe. Seen an incredible uptick in her audience of people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response. Thank you to everyone here tonight and everyone who comes and to all the sponsors who made sure these events keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring john and mary to the screen and step away myself. Larry tye. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. Larry, thanks for coming all the way to massachusetts to be here with us. [laughter] larry is on cape cod as we speak. You have about 100 people or close to 100 people with us and some more may join us as we go along and as was explained upfro
Your television provider. Good evening everyone. Im the director of the book festival. Thank you so a much for being here tonight. We are absolutely delighted to be hosting larry tye for his book demagogue. About senator joseph mccarthy. His long sign john nichols. The Capital Times and associative and under in a magazine. We could not be more delighted to be hosting this event for you. Also along here on our podcast channel. I want to take a moment to say thank you to Madison Public Library and the foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering. Im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events have been absolutely unwavering. And they have been so dedicated to bring authors and to all of you, said that you can watch her home. It in medicine, weve seen incredible uptake in our audience, people from all over and its absolutely wonderful to see the response i think it everyone who is here tonight. It and to all of the sponsors to make
Something that i have, lets say, um, there are a lot of secular jews who identify as jewish, and its almost like when youre a catholic protest, an Irish Catholic or irish protestant, its almost like that, its more kind of ethnic, which i know gets into a weird kind of uh area, but jews um, some jews are are jewish because theyre religious, im not that, but theres a whole like jewish tradition of kind of. Radical leftism, theres even this term, tikunalam, which is hebrew for repair the world, um, and that i think speaks to kind of why you do have this tradition of um, progressives among some jews, but you also obviously have conservative jews, both politically conservative and religiously conservative, but someone like bernie sanders, for instance, i dont think he he, hes jewish, right, but i dont think he celebrates, i dont think he does shabat every friday, i dont know. If he identifies, but whats interesting is like it, it it kind of didnt for hitler and for and for the rest of the w
Investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a first term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the government, particularly in the military and in asp