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Encyclopedia of the McCarthy Era is the first single-source, A-to-Z reference to the days of the blacklist, the Hollywood Ten, the Army-McCarthy Hearings and loyalty review boards. Going as far back as the post-World War II years, the book also covers the investigation of Soviet espionage in the U.S. atomic energy program and the activities of the China Lobby following the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek. With more than 250 in-depth entries, cross-references,...

Thirty years ago, one of the most sensational and frightening episodes in American history -- an episode that traumatized the nation -- reached its climax in the Army-McCarthy hearings. Until now, the full story of the intrigues and maneuverings of demagogues and ideologues, of crusaders and compromisers involved in the McCarthy affair has never been told. Crucial documents -- secret diary entries, personal letters, memoranda of meetings, and, above...

"In this landmark work, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ted Morgan examines the McCarthyite strain in American politics, from its origins in the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution to the present. Morgan argues that Senator Joseph McCarthy did not emerge in a vacuum - he was, rather, the most prominent in a long line of men who exploited the issue of Communism for political advantage." "In this narrative history, Ted Morgan analyzes the paradoxical...

Provides an objective look at the life and career of Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy based on in-depth interviews and McCarthy's personal papers, discussing his motivations, actions, and the era in which he lived.

The McCarthy Era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most widespread episode of political repression in the history of the United States. In the name of national security, most Americans - liberal and conservative alike - supported the anticommunist crusade that ruined so many careers, marriages, even lives. However, despite the unfairness of their methods, the nation's...

Describes the internal and external forces that launched Joseph McCarthy on his political career and carried him to national prominence. In the brief interval between his famous Wheeling speech in 1950 and his official Senate censure four years later, Joseph McCarthy lost his identity as a man to that of an "ism," his name touted by his enemies as a symbol of political opportunism, coercion, and cruel and reckless accusation. McCarthyism today is...

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....