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Shooting Star
The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
Tom Wicker
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9780151010820 Hardcover
015101082X
$22.00
224pages
Available
Trim Size:
5 5/16 x 8
Copyright Year:
2006
Territory:
World
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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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TOM WICKER began covering national politics for the New York Times in 1960. He is the author of ten novels and nine works of nonfiction, including biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Herbert Walker Bush. He lives in Vermont.
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Biography & Autobiography- Political
History- United States/20th Century
Biography & Autobiography- General
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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Social Sciences- History-American
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Social Sciences- Political Science-American Government
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Serial/UK/Translation: Harcourt
Audio/Performance: David Black Literary Agency
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Harcourt Books
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Harcourt Education Company
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