Dennis Lythgoe: Ike deserves more credit for bringing down McCarthy

Recently, PBS presented an American Experience documentary on the infamous communist hunter, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis.While watching the program, I was surprised that the producers failed to utilize a reinterpretation by a notable historian of Dwight Eisenhower’s presidency as it related to McCarthy. That book was published in 1982. Yet none of the historians consulted for the documentary indicated either a knowledge of the book, or of the other historians who revised the historical est