Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow Reflections on American Politics and Life

For more than five decades, Eugene McCarthy has been one of the most significant political figures in our nation, known for his integrity, wit, and keen intellect. An influential congressman for a quarter century, the Minnesota Democrat is perhaps best known for publicly challenging the vicious anti-Communist attacks of Senator Joseph McCarthy and breaking with his party in 1968 to run against Lyndon Johnson and the war in Vietnam. That campaign mobilized thousands of young people across the nation, changing the face of presidential campaigns and the Democratic Party forever.