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Sen. Joseph McCarthy
![Joseph McCarthy [1908-57]](images/JoeMportrait.jpg) speech soundbite {1 min 26 sec.} | Short Profile |
"Joseph McCarthy proved [that] the more ridiculous the charge,
the less possibility there is of defense."
— John Steinbeck [1902-68] (in "America & Americans" 1968)
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy stirred up anti-Communist fears and rose to power
in collusion with the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s,
but his hell-bent disregard for Constitutional rights led to censure by Congress, a failed career,
and a lonely death from alcoholism.
Links
Joseph McCarthy catalog at Amazon.com
Joseph McCarthy listing at Internet Movie Database
Outagamie County Museum McCarthy exhibit
Appleton Wisconsin Library McCarthy exhibit
Webcorp sound & video archive
Army-McCarthy Hearings article at Museum of Broadcast Communications
Joseph McCarthy entry at Wikipedia
Hollywood Blacklist Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Books About Joe McCarthy
 | "Blacklisted By History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy & His Fight Against America's Enemies" [2007] by M. Stanton Evans 'Journalist' Evans has written a deceptive & dishonest defense of his hero McCarthy, leaving out any basic fact that shows McCarthy as the lying demagogue that he was. Crown Forum 15x9 hardcover [11/2007] for $19.77 |
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"Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy" [2006] by Tom Wicker Harcourt 7½x5 pb [3/2006] for $14.30 |
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"The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism To Terrorism" [2005] by Haynes Johnson Harvest Books pb [10/2006] for $10.29 Harcourt 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $17.94 Highbridge ABR audio CD [10/2005] for $23.07 |
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"Reds: McCarthyism In Twentieth-Century America" [2003] by Ted Morgan Random House 8x5¼ pb [11/2004] for $11.53 Random House 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2003] for $23.10 |
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"Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism & American Culture" [2003] by Thomas Doherty Columbia Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2005] for $23.00 Columbia Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2003] for $71.00 |
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"The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents" [1994] by Ellen Schrecker Bedford/St. Martin 8¼x5½ pb [11/2001] for $14.95 Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2002] for $59.95 |
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"Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining The Life & Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" [1999] by Arthur Herman Free Press hardcover [12/99] out of print/used |
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"Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism On Stage, Film & Television" [1999] by Brenda Murphy Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/2002] for $37.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/99] for $85.00 |
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"I Married a Communist" [1998 novel] by Philip Roth Decades after the McCarthyism frenzy, Roth's alter ego character Nathan Zuckerman discovers the effects on own his life from the persecution of a high school teacher. Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/99] for $10.78 Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/98] for $16.38 |
 | "Many Are The Crimes: McCarthyism In America" [1998] by Ellen Schrecker Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [8/99] for $27.95 Little, Brown 9½x6½ hardcover [5/98] for $29.95 |
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"McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare - A Documentary History" [1996] by Albert Fried Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [12/96] for $25.95 |
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"Nightmare In Red: The McCarthy Era In Perspective" [1990] by Richard M. Fried Oxford Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/91] for $14.95 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [1/90] out of print/used |
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"A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy" [orig 1983, rev 2005] by David M. Oshinsky Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [9/2005] for $16.47 Free Press hardcover [5/83] out of print/used |
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"The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy & The Senate" [1970] by Robert Griffith Univ MA Press 8½x5½ pb [12/87] for $22.95 |
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"The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography" [1982] by Thomas C. Reeves Madison Books 9x6 pb [11/97] for $21.94 Stein & Day hardcover [1/82] out of print/many used |
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"Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts From Hearings Before The House Committee On Un-American Activities, 1938-1968" [orig 1971] Edited by Eric Bentley Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] for $24.95 Viking hardcover [11/71] out of print/used |
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"The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of The House Committee On Un-American Activities" [1968] by Walter Goodman FS&G hardcover [6/68] out of print/used |
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"Senator Joe McCarthy" [1959 classic] by Richard H. Rovere, Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Univ CA Press 8x5½ pb [2/96] for $19.95 Borgo Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [12/91] out of print/used |
Videos & DVDs About Joe McCarthy
"Good Night, And, Good Luck"
[Warner Independent Oct 2005]
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TV newsman Edward R. Murrow airs a story about a man discharged from the Navy without a trial. Murrow is accused of being a 'Communist sympathizer', and the C.B.S. news team goes on the offensive. "See It Now" airs a series of shows detailing the lies and un-Constitutional tactics of Senator Joe McCarthy, leading to McCarthy's censure by the U.S. Senate.
Co-written & directed by & co-starring George Clooney; starring David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., Frank Langella. with Joseph McCarthy via archive footage; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script, Best Actor {DS, of course), Best Cinematograpy & Best Art Direction {no wins}
Warner widescreen b&w DVD [3/2006] for $14.96 full credits from IMDb; official moviesite |
in pre-production; found nothing so far on IMDb or Google
"Cradle Will Rock" [Touchstone Dec 1999]
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The Great Depression, labor politics, the McCarthy madness and their effect on a group of actors & writers working to rehearse a leftist musical drama.
Written & directed by Tim Robbins; starring Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Philip Baker Hall, Bill Murray, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Emily Watson & Bob Balaban
Buena Vista color DVD [4/2003] for $13.49 Touchstone color VHS [10/2002] for $9.99 RCA soundtrack CD [12/99] for $17.98 full credits from IMDb credits of the play within the movie at Internet Broadway Database |
"The Crucible" [Fox Nov 1996]
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A powerful parable of the Congressional witchhunts that were led by Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1950s America.
Directed by Nicholas Hytner; script by Arthur Miller [1915-2005] from his 1953 play; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen & Bruce Davison; Oscar nominations for Best Actress [JA] & Best Script; nominated for Best Script BAFTA, Scofield won BAFTA for Best Actor
Fox widescreen DVD [6/2004] for $11.98 Fox widescreen VHS [9/2001] for $9.48 Fox color VHS [4/2002] for $9.48 R.C.A. soundtrack CD [11/96] out of stock/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" black poster {at left} from Amazon for $9.99 11"x17" white poster {above} from Amazon for $9.99 playscript: Penguin 8x5 pb [3/2003] for $8.80
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"Citizen Cohn" tv movie
[Viacom/H.B.O. Aug 1992]
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A harsh look at the life of McCarthy henchman Cohn, in flashbacks as he lies dying of AIDS.
Directed by Frank Pierson; telescript by David Franzoni, based on the book by Nicholas von Hoffman; starring James Woods {as Roy Cohn}, Joe Don Baker {as Sen. McCarthy}, Ed Flanders, Joseph Bologna, Pat Hingle, Frederic Forrest, Lee Grant, David Marshall Grant & Fritz Weaver; nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding TV Movie, Outstanding Director (Miniseries), Outstanding Script (Miniseries), Outstanding Lead Actor [JW], Outstanding Supporting Actress [LG], seven others, won 3 minor Emmy Awards; won a Peabody Award
H.B.O. color DVD [7/2001] for $12.99 H.B.O. color VHS [9/97] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Citizen Cohn: The Life & Times of Roy Cohn" [1988] by Nicholas von Hoffman Bantam mass pb [11/88] out of print/used Doubleday hardcover [3/88] out of print/many used |
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"Edward R. Murrow: The McCarthy Years" [1991] from C.B.S. News archives New Video Group b&w DVD [5/2005] for $21.99 Murrow's credits at IMDb |
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"An American Ism: Joe McCarthy" [1978] Directed by Glenn Silber VHS available online at First Run / Icarus no listing at IMDb |
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"McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter" [1975] Directed by Emile de Antonio [1920-89] M.P.I. b&w VHS [5/2001] out of stock/rare full credits at IMDb |
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"Point of Order!" [1964]
Co-produced & directed by Emile de Antonio [1920-89]; compiled from footage of the televised Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954; starring Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy & Joseph N. Welch; listed at National Film Registry in 1993 New Yorker Video b&w DVD [11/2005] for $26.99 New Yorker Video b&w VHS [2/99] for $18.95 full credits at IMDb |
"Committee On Un-American Activities" documentary film [independent 1962]
Produced by Robert Carl Cohen: no listing at IMDb;
DVD available at Radical Films
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