Title: The age of anxiety
Subtitle: McCarthyism to terrorism
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.
Subjects: Politics and government, Biography, Political culture, Legislators, Presidents, United States. Congress. Senate, United States, Election, Anti-communist movements, Government policy, Terrorism, History
Places: United States
People: Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)
Time periods: 20th century, 1945-1953, 2001-2009, 2004, 1953-1961