McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning by William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Prologue by William Schlamm.

McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning by William F. Buckley, Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. Prologue by William Schlamm. Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, [1954]. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Buckley's first major political book after God and Man at Yale, written with his brother-in-law and fellow Yale graduate L. Brent Bozell. It is a sustained defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-communist crusade, published as McCarthy's influence was collapsing. Whatever one thinks of its case, it's a key document of early postwar conservatism and a sign of the movement's willingness to defend McCarthy when others abandoned him. The jacket's file-folder design, with the typewriter-style lettering, is memorable and a draw for collectors.