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21) The McCarthy era
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[2009]
Description
Discusses the McCarthy era, a time when Joseph McCarthy, obsessed with routing out communists, persecuted innocent Americans destroying careeers and ruining many lives.
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[1994]
Description
This documentary history fills a long-standing need for a short yet comprehensive treatment of McCarthyism. The book is divided into two sections. The first is a compelling essay of about one-hundred pages in which the author discusses the origins and escalation of the anti-Communist campaign in the U.S. in the thirties and forties and how that campaign functioned and eventually sputtered to an end in the fifties. The second part of the book consists...
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[2007]
Description
Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. A half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that image is wrong, as veteran journalist Evans maintains in this groundbreaking book, based on six years of intensive research. Drawing on primary sources--including U.S. government...
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[2011]
Description
On the tenth anniversary of September 11th, FRONTLINE Producer Michael Kirk teams up with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dana Priest, to investigate the dramatic changes that have reshaped America in the last decade. The program examines the history of the secret side of America's 'war on terror,' and asks how a decade of fighting terrorism has reshaped the country and whether it has made us any safer.
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