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The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy / James Cross Giblin.

by Giblin, James.

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Boston [Mass.] : Clarion Books, 2009.

McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Juvenile literature.

United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

9780618610587 (hardcover) :

0618610588 (hardcover) :

ix, 294 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Prologue: More powerful than the president -- Chickens, groceries, and a high school diploma -- Days and nights at Marquette -- Joe's first campaign -- Judge McCarthy -- "Tail Gunner Joe" -- One fight ends, another begins -- Defeating a legend -- Newcomer in Washington -- Charges of torture -- The speech that started it all -- Where's the evidence? -- The top Russian spy -- War breaks out in Korea -- Revenge -- "We like Ike!" -- The missing paragraph -- "I can investigate anybody" -- Cohn and Schine go to Europe -- McCarthy gets married -- The dangerous dentist -- Grilling General Zwicker -- Exposed on television -- A devastating report -- McCarthy on the receiving end -- "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" -- Censured -- "His time to die" -- Epilogue: Another McCarthy? -- After McCarthy's death.

Who was the real Joe McCarthy? Was he an American hero who alerted the country to the threat of Communist subversion or a demagogue who played cynically on the nation's fears?

A Junior Library Guild selection

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