Washington gone crazy
Subtitle: senator Pat McCarran and the great American Communist hunt
By: Michael J. Ybarra.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 854
Subjects: McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954; United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities; Legislators -- United States -- Biography; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953; Nevada -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Nevada senator Pat McCarran was a force of nature in American politics, one of the most shrewd and powerful - and vindictive - lawmakers ever to sit in Congress. Joe McCarthy gave his name to the cause of zealous anti-Communism, but it was McCarran, a lifelong Democrat, who actually wrote the laws, held the hearings, and cowed the State and Justice Departments into doing his bidding. "An earth-shaker," Lyndon Johnson once called McCarran, "who impressed his personality deeply and indelibly upon the institution of the Senate and upon the history of the nation." It was McCarran's law that clogged the detention center at Ellis Island with immigrants suspected of being submersives, and it was MaCarran's marathon Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearing that blackmailed the State Department into sacrificing the careers of distinguished diplomats accused of helping the Communists take over China. From Capitol Hill to the United Nations, from union halls to Hollywood, McCarran was feared and despised - and with good reason." "But Pat McCarran's career is not only the story of one man's extraordinary drive to power - the son of illiterate immigrants, McCarran was a sheepherder who taught himself the law and became a famed defense attorney - it is also the epic journey of America from the Great Depression to the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 764-826) and index.
Table of contents: title: Unruly spirits; title: To the last ditch; title: Night, noon, and morning; title: Where is your blood?; title: A time for surprises; title: The awakening comes; title: Rise up and stamp this thing out of existence; title: Copperheads among us; title: Mass murder again; title: An act of war; title: Crude enough for McCarran to understand; title: Hell popping; title: Who will rule Nevada?; title: The edge of hell; title: On all evidence; title: A one-man Un-American Activities Committee; title: Turbulent populations; title: Chamber of horrors; title: The enemy within; title: Burnt offerings; title: Names, names; title: Day of the McCarrans; title: Keep out; title: The dead; title: Caught in the McCarran act; title: Beset with enemies.