Shooting star, the brief arc of Joe McCarthy, Tom Wicker
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Shooting star, the brief arc of Joe McCarthy, Tom Wicker
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Shooting star
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bibliography
Oclc number
61204327
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Tom Wicker
Sub title
the brief arc of Joe McCarthy
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
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- Biography
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Verenigde Staten
- Sûreté de l'État -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- History
- Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1953
- McCarthyisme
- Anti-communist movements
- Antikommunismus
- McCarthy, Joseph
- Anticommunisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
- Internal security
- 1900 - 1999
- Political science
- Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
- Legislators
- United States
- USA / Senat
- Parlementaires -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1953-1961
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- Subject24
- Biography
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- Verenigde Staten
- Sûreté de l'État -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- History
- Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1945-1953
- McCarthyisme
- Anti-communist movements
- Antikommunismus
- McCarthy, Joseph
- Anticommunisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
- Internal security
- 1900 - 1999
- Political science
- Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
- Legislators
- United States
- USA / Senat
- Parlementaires -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1953-1961
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