Title: Shooting star
First published: 2006
Description: 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.
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
Places: United States
People: Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)
Time periods: 1945-1953, 1953-1961, 20th century
LC classification: E748.M143 W53 2006