TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wicker,Tom
TI  - Shooting star: the brief arc of Joe McCarthy 
SN  - 015101082X (alk. paper)
AV  - E748.M143 W53 2006
U1  - 973.921/092B 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Orlando
PB  - Harcourt
KW  - McCarthy, Joseph,
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Senate
KW  - Biography
KW  - Legislators
KW  - Anti-communist movements
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Internal security
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-1953
KW  - 1953-1961
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index
N2  - 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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