Shooting star :
the brief arc of Joe McCarthy /
Tom Wicker.
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| Summary: | Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it into a flood. Little more than five years later, after countless hearings and stormy speeches and after incalculable damage to ordinary Americans and the nation itself, McCarthy's Senate colleagues voted 67-22 to censure him for his reckless accusations and fabrications. We know today that not one prosecution resulted from McCarthy's investigations into communists in the U.S. government.--Publisher description. |
| In collection: | Stephen Griffin Collection |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Orlando :
Harcourt,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from Stephen Griffin Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index. Physical description: 212 p. ; 21 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 015101082X (alk. paper) 9780151010820 (alk. paper) |