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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 sixty-seven to twenty-two 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.
Journalist Tom Wicker examines McCarthy's ambition and record, attempting to discover the motivation for his demagoguery.
Journalist Tom Wicker examines McCarthy's ambition and record, attempting to discover the motivation for his demagoguery.
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PRAISE FOR SHOOTING STAR
"Tom Wicker's SHOOTING STAR is a marvelous account of Senator Joseph McCarthy's few but vile years of political witch-hunting prominence. Judicious and constantly absorbing, Wicker's account of the rise and fall of "McCarthyism" brings to life a tempestuous time when so many millions of Americans had their first encounter with political demagoguery. To read SHOOTING STAR is to feel the chill of what it is to have freedom of speech come under potentially fatal attack."--Charles Bracelen Flood, author of Grant and Sherman
"Tom Wicker's SHOOTING STAR is a marvelous account of Senator Joseph McCarthy's few but vile years of political witch-hunting prominence. Judicious and constantly absorbing, Wicker's account of the rise and fall of "McCarthyism" brings to life a tempestuous time when so many millions of Americans had their first encounter with political demagoguery. To read SHOOTING STAR is to feel the chill of what it is to have freedom of speech come under potentially fatal attack."--Charles Bracelen Flood, author of Grant and Sherman
PRAISE FOR JFK AND LBJ
"Incredibly persuasive . . . wonderfully astute and incomparably lucid."--Newsweek
"Part history, part biography, part inquest on dead hopes, the book is first-rate creative study of personalities and events and of how they have affected each other."--New Yorker
"Incredibly persuasive . . . wonderfully astute and incomparably lucid."--Newsweek
"Part history, part biography, part inquest on dead hopes, the book is first-rate creative study of personalities and events and of how they have affected each other."--New Yorker
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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 sixty-seven to twenty-two 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.
Journalist Tom Wicker examines McCarthy's ambition and record, attempting to discover the motivation for his demagoguery.
Journalist Tom Wicker examines McCarthy's ambition and record, attempting to discover the motivation for his demagoguery.
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