Title

A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy / David M. Oshinsky.

Author

Oshinsky, David M., 1944-

Publication

New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1983.

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Details

Description

ix, 597 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• 1900-1999
• History
• Biography
• Biographie
• Internal security > United States > History > 20th century
• Legislators > United States > Biography
• Communism > United States > 1917-
• United States > Congress > Senate > Biography
• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957

Genre/Form

• Biographie.
• Biography
• History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 565-579.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Beginnings 1 -- 2. G.I. Judge 21 -- 3. Gunning for the Senate 36 -- 4. The Pepsi-Cola Kid 53 -- 5. Rock Bottom 72 -- 6. The Red Bogey in America, 1917-1950 85 -- 7. Wheeling 103 -- 8. Battle of the Billygoats 115 -- 9. Stand or Fall 130 -- 10. The Lattimore Connection 139 -- 11. Declaration of Conscience 158 -- 12. The Fourth Estate 179 -- 13. "An Infamy So Black ..." 191 -- 14. "Slimy Creatures" 203 -- 15. Tydings's Revenge 214 -- 16. Ike 226 -- 17. Gearing for Battle 247 -- 18. Voices Within the Voice 265 -- 19. Of Diplomats and Greek Ships 286 -- 20. Friends and Enemies 301 -- 21. A Discouraging Summer 315 -- 22. The Monmouth Hearings 330 -- 23. White House Blues 345 -- 24. Who Promoted Peress? 355 -- 25. The Chicken Luncheon 372 -- 26. "The Fault, Dear Brutus" 390 -- 27. Setting the Ground Rules 405 -- 28. The Hearings Begin 416 -- 29. Executive Privilege 435 -- 30. The Eleven Memoranda 446 -- 31. "So Reckless, So Cruel" 457 -- 32. Censure 472 -- 33. Final Years

ISBN

• 0029234905
• 0029237602 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^77018474^

OCLC

9131798

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library