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.

External links

• Digital Classroom information on McCarthy "helping to shape our foreign policy"
• The History Net page on McCarthy
• The McCarthy-Welch exchange
• Joseph McCarthy Papers, Marquette University Library
• FBI Belmont to Boardman memo, 26 November 1957 (PDF pgs. 74-75; also pg. 20) referencing "206" Soviet espionage agents

Defenses of McCarthy

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• How the Jewish Marxists in America Destroyed Joe McCarthy, by Scott Speidel, Florida State University 1994
• Joe McCarthy Was Right
• By Human Events Online, a conservative weekly:
• Editor Taints Recently Published Hearings: How Senate Historian Botched Data on McCarthy
• Levin and Collins Trigger Disinformation: Senate Historian Clams Up When Queried On McCarthy
• By The New American, John Birch Society:
• McCarthy's "Witches"
• The Real McCarthy Record
• By Opinion Editorials, a conservative website:
• The 1950's Reign Of Terror Was AGAINST McCarthy - Not By Him!

Critics of McCarthy

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• Critical book links
• Excerpt from Richard H. Rovere's book ' Senator Joe McCarthy'
• Paper from 'From Seeds of Repression; Harry S. Truman and the Origins of McCarthyism' by Athan Theoharis, Quadrangle Books, Chicago, 1971; 'McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin', Michael O'Brien, University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London, 1980; Blacklist: 'Hollywood on Trial', AMC, broadcast Feb 28, 1996
• Academic Paper on McCarthy
• Essay by Jesse Friedman called 'The Fight for America' which calls McCarthy 'greatest demagogue in the history of America'

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