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The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy
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- Summary
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Who was the real Joe McCarthy? Was he an American hero who alerted the country to the threat of Communist subversion or a demagogue who played cynically on the nation's fears?
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- Creator
- James Cross Giblin
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston ; New York : Clarion Books, 2009
- Physical Details
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- ix, 294 pages : illustrations, map, frontispiece ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780618610587, 0618610588
- OCLC
- ocn317917928
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-282) and index.
- Prologue: More powerful than the president -- Chickens, groceries, and a high school diploma -- Days and nights at Marquette -- Joe's first campaign -- Judge McCarthy -- "Tail Gunner Joe" -- One fight ends, another begins -- Defeating a legend -- Newcomer in Washington -- Charges of torture -- The speech that started it all -- Where's the evidence? -- The top Russian spy -- War breaks out in Korea -- Revenge -- "We like Ike!" -- The missing paragraph -- "I can investigate anybody" -- Cohn and Schine go to Europe -- McCarthy gets married -- The dangerous dentist -- Grilling General Zwicker -- Exposed on television -- A devastating report -- McCarthy on the receiving end -- "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" -- Censured -- "His time to die" -- Epilogue: Another McCarthy? -- After McCarthy's death
Subjects
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Juvenile literature.
- Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
- McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
Children's Subject Heading
- Anti-communist movements.
Children's Subject Heading
- Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
Children's Subject Heading
- United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
Children's Subject Heading