Abstract
In chapter 1, "The Carroll Arms and the National Committee for an Effective Congress," Scates recounts how the Carroll Arms Hotel became the "backstage to the theater of Joe McCarthy, the political drama soon to be played across the street on the Senate floor" (11). In chapter 9, "The Inspector and His Witnesses," the author extends his discussion of McCarthy's probe of suspected "subversion and espionage" (80) through an analysis of committee transcripts.