Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an ‘enemy of the American people.’ Attacks on the media have been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential advertising campaign, but this charge marked a dramatic turning stage: language like this ventured into dangerous territory. Twentieth-century dictators-notably, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao-had all denounced their critics, especially the press, as ‘enemies of the people.’ Their objective was to delegitimize the work of about Foe of the People: Trump’s War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, as well as the Threat to American Democracy the press as ‘fake information’ and create confusion in the public brain about what’s actual and what isn’t; what can be trusted and what can’t be.

That, it appears, can be Trump’s objective. In Enemy of the People, Marvin Kalb, an award-winning American journalist with more than six years of knowledge both like a journalist and press observer, creates with interest about why we should fear for future years of American democracy because of the unrelenting attacks by the Trump administration for the press.

As his new publication displays, the press is a bulwark in the defense of democracy. Kalb writes about Edward R. Murrow’s courageous confirming on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s ‘reddish colored scare’ theatrics in the first 1950’s, which resulted in McCarthy’s demise.