This book is a must-read for anyone studying and researching the rise and fall of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism in American political life.
• Provides an overview of McCarthyism and the postwar Red Scare, relating these mindsets to other waves of domestic persecution
• Includes 12 relevant historic documents such as the Truman Loyalty Oaths; a transcript of McCarthy's speech in Wheeling, West Virginia; McCarthy's attacks on Acheson and Marshall; Margaret Chase Smith's Statement on Conscience; and the Senate's censure of McCarthy
• Provides information on the First Red Scare and the emergence of the American fear of the Left and the potential for a revolution
• Includes 11 short biographies of primary individuals associated with McCarthyism and the Red Scare
• Presents a chronology of events that threatened or weakened individual rights throughout the 20th century, with a specific focus on the Red Scare periods of 1919-21 and 1945-57
• An annotated bibliography includes primary and secondary sources representing the most significant contemporary and scholarly works on the topic