That three-hour onslaught by NBC against the shade of Joe McCarthy has had some beneficial side- effects.
McCarthy and His Enemies was a publishing event when it first appeared and remains the definitive work on McCarthy’s doings up through 1953. Here are covered the McCarthy speech in Wheeling, W.Va., in February of 1950; the “numbers game” involving 205, 81, and 57 suspected subversives in the State Department; the Tydings committee; the counsels of Owen Lattimore and John Stewart Service; the Institute of Pacific Relations; the Amerasia case; the George Marshall episode; and much, much more.




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