Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy /
Wicker, Tom.
Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy / Tom Wicker. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, c2006. - 212 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.
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.
015101082X (alk. paper) 9780151010820
2005020990
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
Anti-communist movements--History--United States--20th century.
Internal security--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
E748.M143 / W53 2006
973.921/092 B
Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy / Tom Wicker. - 1st ed. - Orlando : Harcourt, c2006. - 212 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.
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.
015101082X (alk. paper) 9780151010820
2005020990
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
United States. Congress. Senate --Biography.
Legislators--United States--Biography.
Anti-communist movements--History--United States--20th century.
Internal security--History--United States--20th century.
United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
E748.M143 / W53 2006
973.921/092 B