Maurice Rosenblatt and the fall of Joseph McCarthy / Shelby Scates
- Bib ID:
- 3673612
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Scates, Shelby
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press : History Ink, c2006
- 135 p., [8] p. of leaves : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0295985941
- Summary:
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"Maurice Rosenblatt was one of the principal behind-the-scenes engineers of the 1954 overthrow of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the rabidly anti-Communist chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. Most Americans today either remember or have learned about McCarthy ("Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?") and "McCarthyism," the fever of paranoia over Communist subversives that afflicted the nation in the early days of the Cold War. Few remember - or have ever heard - the name of Maurice Rosenblatt.".
"Veteran journalist Shelby Scates tells the story of the rise of McCarthy's power to destroy careers and livelihoods with his allegations of subversion, together with the story of Rosenblatt's role in effecting his eventual censure by the Senate. Lobbyist Maurice Rosenblatt joined with colleagues to form first the National Committee for an Effective Congress and then, increasingly alarmed, the McCarthy Clearinghouse, dedicated to stopping the demagogue's assault on civil liberties. Operating out of Rosenblatt's suite in the Carroll Arms Hotel near Capitol Hill, Clearinghouse staff lent their support to the Republican senator from Vermont, Ralph Flanders, who introduced the successful resolution to censure McCarthy and remove him from his committee chairmanship." "Drawing on interviews with Rosenblatt and other actors in the drama and on previously unresearched collections and papers, Scates tells a tale of excess and intrigue."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- Prologue 000
- 1 The Carroll Arms and the National Committee for an Effective Congress 000
- 2 Tailgunner Joe, Chanker Jack, and "Moose Dung" 000
- 3 The "McCarthy" Elections, 1950 and 1952 000
- 4 McCarthyism 000
- 5 The Hunter 000
- 6 Postwar and Palestine 000
- 7 The Cause 000
- 8 The Closed Hearings: Vengeance and the VOA 000
- 9 The Inspector and His Witnesses 000
- 10 The Clearinghouse 000
- 11 Flanders and the Fall 000
- Epilogue 000
- Notes 000
- Index 000.
- Notes:
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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