Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, and Second Chances by Scott Brown

On February 18, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Wilfried F. Voss

Scott Brown’s greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years. It began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother.

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Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies

On June 30, 2010, in Book Reviews, by Wilfried F. Voss

Evans’s lively book seeks, first, to demonstrate that Communists worked, often successfully, to undermine American security during the Cold War. It tries, second, to defend Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the egregious scourge of American Communists and fellow travelers, against those who, in Evans’s (The Theme Is Freedom) view, have unjustly ruined his reputation. On the first point, save for some new details, Evans, a contributing editor to Human Events, treads worn ground.

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