Joseph McCarthy

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Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 - May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.

Secondary sources

  • Joe McCarthy and the Press.  University of Wisconsin Press . ISBN 0-299-08624-0.
  • The American Inquisition, 1945-1960: A Profile of the "McCarthy Era".  Thunder's Mouth Press . ISBN 0-938410-87-3.
  • McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning.  Regnery Publishing . ISBN 0-89526-472-2.
  • The Nightmare Decade: The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy.  Random House . ISBN 0-394-46270-X.
  • Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.  Three Rivers Press . ISBN 1-4000-5032-4.
  • God, Church, and Flag: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the Catholic Church, 1950-1957.  University of North Carolina Press . ISBN 0-8078-1312-5.
  • Crosby, Donald F. "The Jesuits and Joe McCarthy." Church History 1977 46(3): 374-388. Issn: 0009-6407 Fulltext: in Jstor
  • Making Villains, Making Heroes: Joseph R. McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Politics of American Memory.  Taylor & Francis . ISBN 0-8153-2992-X.
  • Blacklisted By History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies.  Crown Forum . ISBN 1-4000-8105-X.
  • The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946-1948.  New York University Press . ISBN 0-8147-2576-7.
  • Men Against McCarthy.  Columbia University Press . ISBN 0-231-08360-2.
  • Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective.  Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-504361-8.
  • Gauger, Michael. "Flickering Images: Live Television Coverage and Viewership of the Army-McCarthy Hearings." Historian 2005 67(4): 678-693. Issn: 0018-2370 Fulltext: in Swetswise, Ingenta and Ebsco. Audience ratings show that few people watched the hearings.
  • The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate.  University of Massachusetts Press . ISBN 0-87023-555-9.
  • Haynes, John Earl and Klehr, Harvey Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America.   Yale University Press . ISBN 0-300-08462-5.
  • Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator.  Free Press . ISBN 0-684-83625-4.
  • Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy.  Macmillan Publishing Company . ISBN 0-689-70121-7.
  • Murphy, Brenda. Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism on Stage, Film, and Television. Cambridge U. Press, 1999.
  • McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin.  Olympic Marketing Corp . ISBN 0-8262-0319-1.
  • A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy.  Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-515424-X.
  • Powers, Richard Gid Not Without Honor: A History of American AntiCommunism.   Free Press . ISBN 0-300-07470-0.
  • To Strike at a King: The Turning Point in the McCarthy Witch-Hunt.  Momentum Books Limited . ISBN 1-879094-53-3.
  • The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography.  Madison Books . ISBN 1-56833-101-0.
  • Thomas See It Now Confronts McCarthyism: Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation.   University of Alabama Press . ISBN 0-8173-5191-4.
  • Senator Joe McCarthy.  University of California Press . ISBN 0-520-20472-7.
  • Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.  Little, Brown . ISBN 0-316-77470-7.
  • Covering McCarthyism: How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954.  Greenwood Press . ISBN 0-313-31091-2.
  • Joe Must Go: The Movement to Recall Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Spring 1966.  State Historical Society of Wisconsin. pp. 185–209
  • Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy.  Harcourt . ISBN 0-15-101082-X.

Primary sources

Notes

  1. For a history of this period, see, for example:
    David Caute The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower.  Simon & Schuster . ISBN 0671226827. ; Richard M. Fried Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective.  Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-504361-8. ; Ellen Schrecker Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.  Little, Brown . ISBN 0-316-77470-7.