The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy /
When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centred on powe...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Giblin, James Cross, |d 1933-2016. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The rise and fall of Senator Joe McCarthy / |c James Cross Giblin. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Senator Joe McCarthy |
| 260 | |a Boston ; |a New York : |b Clarion Books, |c 2009. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 294 p. : |b il., mapa ; |c 26 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 271-282) e índice. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centred on power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both. The strengths and weaknesses of the man and the system that permitted his rise are explored in this authoritative, lucid biography, which sets McCarthy's life against a teeming backdrop of world affairs and struggles between military and political rivals at home. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a McCarthy, Joseph, |d 1908-1957. |
| 600 | 1 | 7 | |a McCarthy, Joseph, |d 1908-1957. |2 UDESA |
| 610 | 1 | 0 | |a United States. |b Congress. |b Senate |v Biography. |
| 610 | 1 | 7 | |a Estados Unidos. |b Congreso. |b Senado |v Biografía. |2 UDESA |
| 650 | 0 | |a Anti-communist movements |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Legislators |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Movimientos anticomunistas |z Estados Unidos |x Historia. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Legisladores |z Estados Unidos |v Biografía. |2 UDESA | |