Joe McCarthy had been the subject of Mr. Buckley's second book, and would be the subject of his forty-fourth book (cf. Firing Line #S1208); Mr. Lee was a friend of McCarthy's; Mr. Reeves had come, through the course of his research, to like McCarthy, though not necessarily to admire him. An often-moving discussion of the man and of the consequences of his actions. Mr. Reeves: "There are two things that I learned ... in my six years of research ... that I was shocked about.... One, I discovered he was a very warm human being with a lot of positive qualities. But secondly, and this was what really stunned me, I discovered that at least by February 1950 McCarthy became a true believer. He is not the wholly cynical, amoral creature who appears in literature. Not at all, and this makes him much more dangerous."