{"first_publish_date": "2006", "title": "Shooting star", "subject_times": ["1945-1953", "1953-1961", "20th century"], "covers": [112359], "subject_places": ["United States"], "lc_classifications": ["E748.M143 W53 2006"], "subject_people": ["Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)"], "key": "/works/OL2657172W", "authors": [{"type": "/type/author_role", "author": {"key": "/authors/OL387515A"}}], "dewey_number": ["973.921/092", "B"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Politics and government", "Legislators", "Anti-communist movements", "United States. Congress. Senate", "United States", "Internal security", "Biography", "History", "Mccarthy, joseph, 1908-1957", "United states, congress, senate, biography", "Legislators, united states", "United states, politics and government, 1945-1953", "United states, politics and government, 1953-1961"], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T00:10:08.798654"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-01-30T08:36:03.321398"}}