America's retreat from victory

"On June 14, 1951--before the U.S. Senate--Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin reviewed the public career of General George G. Marshall. It was a long and amply documented speech in which no holds were barred. This book is a condensed version of that speech --with the asides cut out--and with new material added, including the treatment accorded the speech by the press. 'My discussion of General Marshall's career,' writes the Senator, 'arose naturally and inevitably out of a long and anxious study of the retreat from victory which this Administration has been beating since 1945. In compa...