Joseph McCarthy
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Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (November 14, 1908 - 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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For a history of this period, see, for example:
David Caute The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. Simon & Schuster . ISBN 0671226827. ; Richard M. Fried Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective. Oxford University Press . ISBN 0-19-504361-8. ; Ellen Schrecker Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Little, Brown . ISBN 0-316-77470-7.
