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Shooting Star - The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (Paperback)
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Shooting Star - The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy (Paperback)
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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
sixty-seven to twenty-two 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.
Journalist Tom Wicker examines McCarthy's ambition and record,
attempting to discover the motivation for his demagoguery.
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