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Wicker, Tom

 
9780151010820: Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
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ISBN 10 : 015101082X ISBN 13 : 9780151010820
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tom Wicker has been writing about American politics for more than 40 years, and is author of numerous books on the subject

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
015101082X
ISBN 13 
9780151010820
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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