| Description |
vii, 181 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Great lives observed
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A Spectrum book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index. |
| Contents |
McCarthy's anti-communist crusade, 1950-54 -- McCarthy and the State Department -- At storm center, 1950-1952 -- McCarthy takes on Eisenhower -- Downfall of a Senator. |
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"He was in some meaningful sense aberrant" / Richad Rovere -- "He was right in essentials" / Roy Cohn -- "I automatically think of Hitler" / Arthur Eisenhower -- "No idea, no cause, no program, nothing" / Will Herberg -- "He had seen the truth-- and it killed him" / William S. Schlamm -- McCarthyism as isolationism / Nathan Glazer -- McCarthyism and the Parvenus / Huberman and Sweezy -- McCarthy and ressentiment / Peter Viereck -- McCarthyism as a Republican phenomenon / Nelson Polsby -- McCarthyism and the ethnic factor / Seymour Martin Lipset -- McCarthyism not a mass movement / Michael Paul Rogin. |
| Subject |
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
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Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Matusow, Allen J.
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| ISBN |
0135667291 |
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