Haynes Johnson Discusses The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson, a commentator on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, reveals the parallels between the sinister crusade of Joseph McCarthy and the current administration's relentless war on terror. Johnson maintains that we have fallen into an age of misinformation. We must make sure that fear does not conquer reason and ensure that we avoid the mistakes that our country made 50 years ago. A book signing will follow the program.
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<p>For five long years, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade polarized our country, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens. Referred to as one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history, feelings of suspicion, hatred, and extremism threatened the delicate balance between national security and civil liberties.
Fifty years later, the affects of terrorism has once again created an age of distrust and misinformation. Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Haynes Johnson offers a candid and powerful argument of how detrimental a culture of fear is for our country and how our leaders cannot afford to make the same mistakes as Senator McCarthy </p>
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