New Jersey Senator Clifford Case made his first first run for the US Senate in 1954 by openly campaigning against McCarthyism at a time when Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy was the most powerful force in Republican politics. Case's criticism of his own party was so unusual that he was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in October 1954, just weeks before winning his senate race by the smallest margin in New Jersey history.

Senator Case's new biographer, Bill Fernekes, will give highlights of Senator Case's political career on September 7 at 10:30 AM at the Six Mile Run Dutch Reformed Church, where the future senator worshipped as a child. The new biography is titled "Clifford Case and the Challenge of Republican Liberalism, published by Rowman & Littlefield, and features a foreword by Ross K. Baker.

Considered a pro-Eisenhower Republican, Senator Case became a stalwart of Republican liberalism for more than two decades, supporting President Kennedy's New Frontier and President Johnson's Great Society.

"This book is timely in that it is published at a time of political polarization and touches on the alarming events of the McCarthy era recently popularized in the podcast Ultra from Rachel Maddow," said Robin Suydam, who has helped to organize the author talk on September 7.