| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism. By Dominic Sandbrook. (New York: Knopf, 2004. xiv, 397 pp. $25.95, ISBN 1-4000-4105-8.)
Dominic Sandbrook's Eugene McCarthy is, surprisingly, the first full biography of the man who famously challenged Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1968 Democratic primaries. Welcomed for that alone, it is also a worthy addition to the burgeoning work on the 1960s.	1
Ironically, Sandbrook makes clear that the enigmatic McCarthy was not of the sixties. He was, as Sandbrook paints him, a fish out of water by nature. Deeply Catholic, McCarthy opted for politics over the priesthood, but still his faith was the "most important influence on his intellectual life" (p. 9). A midwesterner, he was rooted in the region's farmer-labor tradition. There was not much of the typical liberal about him. And yet he signed up with the midcentury liberal consensus when he entered Congress in 1948. He was a steadfast opponent of segregation, invariably supported extensions of the welfare state, was unerringly prolabor, and railed against godless Communism. He was a typical congressman, neither averse to the flattery of the Texas power brokers, Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson, nor immune to lobbyists.	. . .

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