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The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now History Is Repeating Itself
Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...
What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...
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The Red Scare
In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts ... She and her family became a target for Quebecs Red Squads. "When I saw five strapping provincial police enter ...
Federal workers were targeted for loyalty during the Red Scare
President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...
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Another book about my grandfather Whittaker Chambers puts politics before historical accuracy
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism and the Making of Modern America; By Clay Risen; Scribner ; 480 pp., $31.00 Between then and now, two big revelations for historians came out, both in the mid-1990s.