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The McCarthy Era (Hardcover)
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The McCarthy Era (Hardcover)
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As the cold war began in the late 1940s, the fear of a Red threat
within the United States intensified. Exploiting the public
anxieties, Joseph R. McCarthy, a little-known senator from
Wisconsin, launched his anti-communist crusade in 1950. Past
membership in the Communist Party, friendship with suspected
radicals, or buying a leftist newspaper was enough for a person to
be blacklisted, fired from their job, arrested, or even deported.
Federal employees, Hollywood actors, public schoolteachers,
scientists, and many others were ensnared by the Red Scare. Though
the Soviet Union did present a real threat and some American
Communists did try to aid the Soviets through spying, McCarthy's
disregard for the truth, bullying of witnesses, and trampling of
Constitutional rights helped create one of the darkest, most
controversial periods in American history. The McCarthy Era
examines the influences, events, and repercussions of the period,
giving readers a vivid sense of this time in history.
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