Mccarthy, Eugene (Joseph)

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MCCARTHY, Eugene (Joseph)

MCCARTHY, Eugene (Joseph). American, b. 1916. Genres: Poetry, Politics/Government. Career: Member, U.S. House of Representatives for 4th District of Minnesota, 1949-58; U.S. Senator (Democrat) from Minnesota, 1958-70; Candidate for U.S. Presidency, 1968; Adlai Stevenson Professor of Political Science, New School for Social Research, NYC, 1973- 74. Member, Board of Dirs., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., Publishers. Publications: Frontiers in American Democracy, 1960; Dictionary of American Politics, 1962; A Liberal Answer to the Conservative Challenge, 1964; Limits of Power, 1967; The Year of the People, 1969; The Hard Years: A Look at Contemporary America and American Institutions, 1975; (with others) Regulation and Political Campaigns, 1977; Mr. Raccoon and His Friends, 1977; America Revisited, 1978; (with J.J. Kilpatrick) A Political Bestiary, 1978; The Ultimate Tyranny, 1980; Gene McCarthy's Minnesota, 1982; Complexities and Contraries, 1982; The View from Rappahannock, 1984; Up 'til Now, 1987; Required Reading, 1988; Colony of the World, 1993; Triumph of the Innocent, 1998; No-Fault Politics: Modern Presidents, the Press, and Reformers, 1998; Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-eight, 2000; An American Bestiary, 2000; Season of Hope: A Christmas Memoir, 2001; From Rappahannock County, 2002. POETRY: Other Things and the Aardvark, 1970; Ground Fog and Night, 1979; Eugene J. McCarthy: Selected Poems, 1998. Address: 274 Hawlin Rd, Woodville, VA 22749-1721, U.S.A.

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