Waubonsee Community College

Joseph McCarthy, reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator, Arthur Herman

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Includes bibliographical references (373-384 pages) and index

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Joseph McCarthy

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Arthur Herman

"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."--Jacket

reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator

pt. I. Origins : Wisconsin and the wider world ; The class of '46 ; Fatal attraction: liberals and communism ; The forties: Democrats and Communists -- pt. II. Rise : The enemy within ; The Tydings Committee -- pt. III. Fall : Failure at the top ; Supporters' Club ; McCarthy rampant ; McCarthy triumphant ; Republicans ascendant ; McCarthy against the press ; McCarthy against the army ; McCarthy against himself ; Censure ; Extinction -- pt. IV. Legacy : Beyond McCarthy -- Appendixes : I. McCarthy and the doctors ; II. The strange case of Annie Lee Moss