Joseph McCarthy
Subtitle: reexamining the life and legacy of America's most hated senator
By: Arthur Herman.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Joseph McCarthy explains how this farm boy from Wisconsin sprang up from a newly confident postwar America, and how he embodied the hopes and anxieties of a generation caught in the toils of the Cold War. It shows how McCarthy used the explosive issue of Communist spying in the thirties and forties to challenge the Washington political establishment and catapult himself into the headlines.

Above all, it gives us a picture of the red scare far different from and more accurate than the one typically portrayed in the news media and the movies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references   (373-384 p.) and index.