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Investigates charges that Senator Joe McCarthy, Chairman of Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Subcommittee counsel Roy M. Cohn sought preferential treatment from Army for former Subcommittee consultant, Private G. David Schine. Also investigates countercharges that Secretary of Army Robert T. Stevens and others brought these charges to discredit the Subcommittee investigation of communist infiltration of the Army.
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When Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark resigned his seat on the bench at the youthful age of 67 after 18 years, his decision was unique in the annals of Court history: he was leaving so that his son Ramsey, just nominated as Attorney General, could assume the job Clark himself had once held without conflict of interest. As Alexander Wohl shows, Tom and Ramsey Clark had a profound impact on American law and society. For nearly three quarters of a century, they influenced presidents, policies, and legal rulings, during careers that tracked closely with some of the most significant and controversial episodes in modern American history. Highlighting their consistent effort to balance individual li...