Publisher's Synopsis
Originally published as a section of the author's larger "American Demagogues: Twentieth Century" (1954), this Kindle edition explores the notorious career of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who in the early 1950s launched a campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions. Many of the accused, most of whom did not in fact belong to the Communist Party, were blacklisted or lost their jobs. Arthur Miller's famous play "The Crucible" (1953), which dramatized the 1690s Salem witch trials, was written as an allegory for the 1950s witch-hunt that came to be known as McCarthyism.About the AuthorHistorian Reinhard H. Luthin (1905-1962) was a frequent contributor to "The American Scholar," "The American Historical Review," "The Political Science Quarterly" and other journals. A former fellow in history at Duke University and former member of the history faculty at Columbia University, he was Fulbright Professor of American and European history at the University of Dacca, Pakistan, and a visiting lecturer at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Other works include "The Real Abraham Lincoln" and "The First Lincoln Campaign."
