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(0)Tom Wicker
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it into a flood....
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (5 hr., 2 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bona-fide American hero at the close of World War II, General Dwight Eisenhower rode an enormous wave of popularity into the Oval Office seven years later. Though we may view the Eisenhower years through a hazy lens of 1950s nostalgia, historians consider his presidency one of the least successful. At home there was civil rights unrest, McCarthyism, and a deteriorating economy; internationally, the Cold War was deepening. But despite his tendency...
