Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy / Tom Wicker.
Publication details: Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.Edition: 1st edDescription: 212 p. ; 21 cmISBN:- 015101082X (alk. paper)
- 9780151010820
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography
- Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1953-1961
- 973.921/092 B 22
- E748.M143 W53 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index.
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.