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4 days ago · Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles. In 1954 his Senate colleagues officially censured him for unbecoming conduct.
Oct 29, 2009 · Joseph R. McCarthy, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, is best known for his high-profile attempts to expose communists in the U.S. government during the 1950s.
Apr 2, 2014 · Famous Political Figures. Joseph McCarthy. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department. He became chair of the Senate's subcommittee on...
McCarthyism, name given to the period of time in American history that saw U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin produce a series of investigations and hearings during the 1950s in an effort to expose supposed communist infiltration of various areas of the U.S. government.
A special subcommittee investigated McCarthy's charges and rejected them as “a fraud and a hoax,” but the outbreak of the Korean War and the highly publicized conviction of Alger Hiss lent credibility to the charges.
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”...
Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957) was an American lawyer and politician, famous for instigating and leading witch hunts against suspected communists in the 1950s. McCarthy was born in rural Wisconsin, the fifth of nine children to Irish working-class parents.
