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Jul 27, 2020 · Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods | The New Yorker. A Critic at Large. Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods. McCarthy never sent a single “subversive”...
This paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a series of highly publicized probes into alleged Communist penetration of the State Department, the White House, the Treasury, and even the US Army.
Nov 13, 2009 · Senator Joseph McCarthy (R- Wisconsin) succumbs to illness exacerbated by alcoholism and passes away at age 48. McCarthy had been a key figure in the anticommunist hysteria popularly known as...
