Joseph McCarthy : reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator / Arthur Herman
- Bib ID:
- 122205
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Herman, Arthur, 1956-
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- Description:
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- New York : Free Press, c2000
- 404 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0684836254 (alkaline paper)
- Summary:
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"Joseph McCarthy explains how this farm boy from Wisconsin sprang up from a newly confident postwar America, and how he embodied the hopes and anxieties of a generation caught in the toils of the Cold War. It shows how McCarthy used the explosive issue of Communist spying in the thirties and forties to challenge the Washington political establishment and catapult himself into the headlines. Above all, it gives us a picture of the red scare far different from and more accurate than the one typically portrayed in the news media and the movies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Origins. 1. Wisconsin and the Wider World. 2. The Class of '46. 3. Fatal Attraction: Liberals and Communism. 4. The Forties: Democrats and Communists
- Pt. II. Rise. 5. The Enemy Within. 6. The Tydings Committee
- Pt. III. Fall. 7. Failure at the Top. 8. Supporters' Club. 9. McCarthy Rampant. 10. McCarthy Triumphant. 11. Republicans Ascendant. 12. McCarthy Against the Press. 13. McCarthy Against the Army. 14. McCarthy Against Himself. 15. Censure. 16. Extinction
- Pt. IV. Legacy. 17. Beyond McCarthy
- App. I. McCarthy and the Doctors
- App. II. The Strange Case of Annie Lee Moss.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (373-384 p.) and index.
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1964
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