The age of anxiety
Subtitle: McCarthyism to terrorism
By: Haynes Johnson
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Orlando
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9780739469606
Subjects: Biography; Legislators; Politics and government; Anti-communist movements; History; Terrorism; Government policy; Presidents; Election; Political culture; McCarthyisme; Terrorisme; Angst; United States. Congress. Senate; United States
Description: "For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens. In The Age of Anxiety, Johnson tells this monumental story through the lens of its relevance to our own time, when the current administration has created a culture of fear that again affects American behavior and attitudes. Now, as then, our civil liberties, our Constitution, and our nation are at stake as we confront the ever more difficult task of balancing the need for national security with that of personal liberty. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: "A James H. Silberman book."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: A New Kind of War; title: Part 1. McCarthyism; title: 1. The List; title: 2. Tail Gunner Joe; title: 3. Progressivism to McCarthyism; title: 4. The Remarkable Upstart; title: 5. The Way to Wheeling; title: Part 2. The Past as Prologue; title: 6. In the Beginning; title: 7. Cold Warriors; title: Part 3. Dealing With a Demagogue; title: 8. The Press; title: 9. The Politicians; title: 10. The Network; title: 11. The Opposition; title: 12. The Demagogue; title: Part 4. Prelude to Power; title: 13. Twenty Years of Treason; title: 14. Taking More Scalps; title: 15. Junketeering Gumshoes; title: Part 5. Witch Hunts; title: 16. Inquisitions; title: 17. The Case of Private Schine; title: 18. Point of Order!; title: 19. "Have You No Shame, Senator?"; title: Part 6. Judgment; title: 20. Belling the Cat; title: 21. Oblivion; title: Part 7. Legacy; title: 22. The Politics of Fear; title: 23. Parallels; title: 24. A House Divided; title: Epilogue: The Age of Anxiety.