Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14 1908 – May 2 1957) was an American politician originally aligned with the United States Democratic Party and later with the United States Republican Party. McCarthy served as a U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1957. During his ten years in the Senate, McCarthy and his staff became notorious for aggressive investigations of people in the U.S. government and others who were suspected of being Communists or Communist sympathizers.

Additional reading

• Bayley, Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the Press (University of Wisconsin Press, 1981)
• Belfrage, Cedric The American Inquisition, 1945-1960: A Profile of the "McCarthy Era" (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989)
• Coulter, Ann Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (Crown Forum, 2003)
• Daynes, Gary Making Villains, Making Heroes: Joseph R. McCarthy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Politics of American Memory (Garland Pub., 1997)
• Feldstein, Richard. "Political Correctness: A response from the cultural Left" (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) (linking McCarthyite tactics with neoconservative attacks on 'politically correct' academics)
• Fried, Richard M. Men against McCarthy (Columbia University Press, 1976)
• Fried, Richard M. Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 1990)
• McCarthy, Joseph America's Retreat from Victory (Western Islands Publishing, 1952)
• McCarthy, Joseph McCarthyism, the Fight for America (Devin-Adair Co., 1952)
• Oshinsky, David Senator Joseph McCarthy and the American Labor Movement (University of Missouri Press, 1976)
• Ranville, Michael To Strike at a King: The Turning Point in the McCarthy Witch Hunts (Momentum Books, 1997)
• Rosteck, Thomas See It Now Confronts McCarthyism: Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation (University of Alabama Press, 1994)
• Rovere, Richard Halworth Senator Joe McCarthy (Harcourt Brace, 1959)
• Watkins, Arthur Vivian. Enough rope; the inside story of the censure of Senator Joe McCarthy by his colleagues, the controversial hearings that signaled the end of a turbulent career and a fearsome era in American public life (Prentice Hall, 1969)
• Herman, Arthur. Joseph McCarthy : Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator (Free Press, 1999)