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Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908Template:Ndash May 2, 1957) was an American]] politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.

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  1. For a history of this period, see, for example:
    The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower.  Simon & Schuster . ISBN 0671226827.
    Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective.  Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-504361-8.
    Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.  Little, Brown . ISBN 0-316-77470-7.