Coming up next on booktv encore booknotes from january 2000. Arthur herman discusses his book Joseph Mccarthy. Professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u. S. Government. This is about an hour. Cspan arthur herman, author of Joseph Mccarthy, why do you think we needed to reexamine the life and legacy of americas mosthated senator . Guest well, there are a couple of reasons. One is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. We also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. And what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous rereputation and notoriety that he does and to understand where t
Of last year coming across the border, that mixed into this pot of people were, we know, at least 180 convicted sex offenders. This article goes on to point out that additionally, agents arrested more than 50 members of a gang, ms13, a norre notoriou, and members of another gang called the 18th street gang. For my colleagues information, many of them have heard about a train that goes up through mexico that many of the migrants from Central America take in order to help them make their journey. This train is called the beas beast. It is sometimes called the beast of death. And the stories and indeed the books that have been written about this chronicle how horrendous this trip is, and you can see here in this picture, you have young people and older people sitting on top of this train riding it as far as they can, helping them make their journey up that eastern coast of mexico from Central America, the 1,200 miles it would take to get from Guatemala City to south texas. Many of them tr
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