The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy

Prologue: More powerful than the president

Chickens, groceries, and a high school diploma

Days and nights at Marquette

Joe's first campaign

Judge McCarthy

"Tail Gunner Joe"

One fight ends, another begins

Defeating a legend

Newcomer in Washington

Charges of torture

The speech that started it all

Where's the evidence?

"The top Russian spy"

War breaks out in Korea

Revenge

"We like Ike!"

The missing paragraph

"I can investigate anybody"

Cohn and Schine go to Europe

McCarthy gets married

The dangerous dentist

Grilling General Zwicker

Exposed on television

A devastating report

McCarthy on the receiving end

"Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

Censured

"His time to die"

Epilogue: Another McCarthy?

After McCarthy's death.