REIGNING MUCKRAKER
Oct 19, 2021
3 minutes
BY RICHARD ERNSBERGER JR.
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Donald A. Ritchie is Historian Emeritus of the U.S. Senate. At the Senate he ran an oral history program and edited for publication transcripts of 160 closed hearings Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) conducted in 1953-54 to qualify witnesses for his investigation into communist influence within the federal government. A former president of the Oral History Association, Ritchie also served on the council of the American Historical Association. The Columnist: Leaks, Lies and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington (Oxford, 2021) is his fourth book on American journalism.
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