Hard Years - Antidotes to Authoritarians - Softcover

During World War II, he served as a civilian technical assistant in military intelligence for the War Department. He was acting head of the sociology department at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul when elected to Congress in 1948.

Re-elected four more times, Mr. McCarthy represented Minnesota's 4th District in the House of

Representatives for ten years, serving on Post Office & Civil Service, Agriculture, Interior & Insular Affairs, Banking & Currency, and Ways & Means committees.

Elected twice to the U.S. Senate (1959 to 1971), he served on the Finance, Agriculture & Forestry, Public Works committees and the Senate Special Committee on Unemployment Problems; from 1965 to 1969 he served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chairing the special subcommittee on African Affairs.

His run for the presidency in 1968 electrified the nation and forced a national political debate on issues fundamental to the operation of a democracy. In 1976 and 1992 McCarthy again ran for the presidency to bring forward some discussion of these fundamentals, examined in many of his other books which include:

1968: War & Democracy (Lone Oak Press)
America Revisited (Doubleday)
An American Bestiary (Lone Oak Press)
And Time Began (Lone Oak Press)
Challenge of Freedom (Avon)
Colony of the World (Hippocrene)
Complexities & Contraries (Lone Oak Press)
Dictionary of American Politics (Macmillan)
Frontiers in American Democracy (World Publishing)
Ground Fog & Night (Harcourt)
Hard Years: Antidotes to Authoritarians (Lone Oak Press)
Liberal Answer to the Conservative Challenge (Macfadden)
Limits of Power (Holt) (Lone Oak Press, reprint)
Memories of a Native Son (Lone Oak Press)
Mr. Raccoon & His Friends (Academy Chicago)
No-Fault Politics (Times Books)
Nonfinancial Economic (Praeger)
Required Reading (Harcourt)
Selected Poems (Lone Oak Press)
Ultimate Tyranny (Harcourt)
Up 'Til Now (Harcourt)
From Rappahannock County (Lone Oak Press)