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An examination of Joseph McCarthy's ambition and record attempts to discover the motivations behind his demagoguery as the anti-Communist cause already had been embraced by the Republican Party as a whole, a cause that turned into a flood. 25,000 first printing.
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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 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.An examination of Joseph McCarthy's record attempts to discover the motivations behind his demagoguery, as the anti-Communist cause already had been embraced by the Republican Party as a whole, a cause that turned into a flood.
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