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Clarion Books
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English

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Legislators, United States. Congress. Senate, United States, Anti-communist movements, Juvenile literature, Biography, History, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, Mccarthy, joseph, 1908-1957, United states, congress, senate, biography, Mccarthy, joseph, 1908-1957, juvenile literature, Legislators, united states, New York Times reviewed

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Joseph McCarthy (1908-1957)

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Table of Contents

Prologue: More powerful than the president
Chickens, groceries, and a high school diploma
Days and nights at Marquette
Joe's first campaign
Judge McCarthy
"Tail Gunner Joe"
One fight ends, another begins
Defeating a legend
Newcomer in Washington
Charges of torture
The speech that started it all
Where's the evidence?
"The top Russian spy"
War breaks out in Korea
Revenge
"We like Ike!"
The missing paragraph
"I can investigate anybody"
Cohn and Schine go to Europe
McCarthy gets married
The dangerous dentist
Grilling General Zwicker
Exposed on television
A devastating report
McCarthy on the receiving end
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
Censured
"His time to die"
Epilogue: Another McCarthy?
After McCarthy's death.

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Genre
Juvenile literature, Biography

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973.921092, B
Library of Congress
E748.M143 G535 2009, E748.M143G535 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.

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9780618610587
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2009015005
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8669114
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6633245

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