Wicker, Tom. <br/><br/>
Shooting star :  the brief arc of Joe McCarthy / 
Tom Wicker. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Orlando :  Harcourt,  c2006. 
 - 212 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-199) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>015101082X (alk. paper) 9780151010820 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005020990 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Congress.  Senate --Biography.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Legislators--United States--Biography.<br/>Anti-communist movements--History--United States--20th century.<br/>Internal security--History--United States--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E748.M143  / W53 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.921/092  B