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Article: Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- February 21, 2006
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Eugene McCarthy and the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism.
By Dominic Saadbrook. Knopf 432 pp., $16.95 paperback.
WHEN SENATOR Eugene McCarthy died in December, obituary writers and columnists revisited his 1968 presidential campaign, his poetry and his quirky political afterlife. In Minnesota they remembered his service in Congress, from 1952 to 1970. A few writers recalled that as devout Catholics, McCarthy and his wife, Abigail, never divorced, although they were separated from 1969 until her death in 2001.
McCarthy was raised in a Catholic family in Watkins, Minnesota. He attended a Catholic school, and at the age of 16 entered ...
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