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100 1 $aWicker, Tom.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50016182
245 10 $aShooting star :$bthe brief arc of Joseph McCarthy /$cTom Wicker.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aOrlando :$bHarcourt,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $a212 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aAn examination of Joseph McCarthy's record attempts to discover the motivations behind his demagoguery as the anti-Communist cause already had been embraced by the Republican Party as a whole, a cause that turned into a flood.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMcCarthy, Joseph,$d1908-1957.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043290
650 0 $aLegislators$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106857
610 10 $aUnited States.$bCongress.$bSenate$vBiography.
650 0 $aAnti-communist movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101061
650 0 $aInternal security$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008123955
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1945-1953.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140466
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1953-1961.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140468
856 42 $zAccess description provided by publisher$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005020990-d.html
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