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The Politics of Fear : Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate
author
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Griffith, Robert.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870235559
print isbn13
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9780870235559
ebook isbn13
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9780585121871
language
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English
subject
McCarthy, Joseph,--1908-1957, Legislators--United States--Biography, United States.--Congress.--Senate--Biography, Anti-communist movements--United States--Biography, United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
publication date
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1987
lcc
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E748.M143G7 1987eb
ddc
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973.918/092/4
subject
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McCarthy, Joseph,--1908-1957, Legislators--United States--Biography, United States.--Congress.--Senate--Biography, Anti-communist movements--United States--Biography, United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
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The Politics of Fear
Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate
Second edition, with a new introduction
Robert Griffith
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
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Copyright 1970 by Robert Griffith
Introduction to the Second Edition 1987 by Robert Griffith
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Griffith, Robert, 1940 The politics of fear. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. McCarthy, Joseph, 19081957. 2. LegislatorsUnited StatesBiography. 3. United States. Congress. SenateBiography. 4. Anti-communist move mentsUnited StatesBiography. 5. United StatesPolitics and govern ment19451953. I. Title. E748.M143G7 1987973.918'092'487-13766 ISBN O-87023-555-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data are available
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For Barbara
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Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition
ix
Preface
xxvii
1 The Junior Senator from Wisconsin
1
2 The Long Road to Wheeling
27
3 The Rise of Joe McCarthy
52
4 The Fear of Honorable Men
115
5 The History of an Investigation
152
6 McCarthy and the Republican Ascendancy
188
7 The Opposition
221
8 The Army-McCarthy Hearings
243
9 Censure
270
Conclusion
318
Bibliographical Essay
321
Index
337
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Introduction to the Second Edition
Two Decades of Scholarship on the Politics of Anti-Communism
I completed the first draft of The Politics of Fear twenty years ago as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At the time, Americans were in the midst of a great debate, not just over Vietnam and the Cold War, but over the very character of American politics and society as well. One important part of that debate, though I did not then fully understand it, was the attempt by historians like myself to rethink the postwar politics of anti-communismto reexamine the rise of the Cold War, the emergence of Joe McCarthy, and the impact of what came to be called "McCarthyism" on American politics and culture. The world, of course, has changed a lot since then; certainly I have. I know, or at least hope I know, a great deal more than I did then. Nevertheless, I have resisted the temptation to rewrite the book or tailor it to current intellectual fashions. In part, this is because of the immodest notion that, two decades later, it still stands up fairly well. In part, too, it is because like other artifacts of the past it possesses a sort of integrity that ought to be respected, even by its author. What I would like to do instead is to discuss some of the many books on the politics of anti-communism that have appeared since 1967, and to suggest how they have affected my own thinking about McCarthy and McCarthyism.
In 1967, most accounts of McCarthy and McCarthyism were
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dominated by two themes: the portrayal of anti-communism as a mass movement of the new "radical right" and the depiction of McCarthy as its charismatic leader. The first of these concepts, popularized by Daniel Bell and other contributors to The New American Right (1955), described McCarthyism as the forerunner of an American "totalitarianism," a populistic, "pseudo-conservative" revolt against modernization and the nation's modern, elite-managed institutions.1 The second, and corollary, concept was that McCarthy himself was an extraordinary demagogue with a unique talent for probing "the dark reaches of the American mind" and galvanizing the masses into action outside the boundaries of conventional social and political institutions.2 Both of these themes were in turn part of a larger orthodox historiography that depicted Harry Truman and other liberals as embattled defenders of a "vital center,'' struggling even-handedly with the menace of the Soviet Union abroad and the rising tide of McCarthyism at home.
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