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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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Who was the real Joe McCarthy? Was he an American hero who alerted the country to the threat of Communist subversion or a demagogue who played cynically on the nation's fears? |
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1190 Lexile. |
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Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 10.5 17 134307 |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957 -- Juvenile literature.
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McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
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McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. |
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United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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United States. Congress. Senate -- Biography.
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United States. Congress. Senate. |
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Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Anti-communist movements.
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Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
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Anti-communist movements. |
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Legislators. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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History.
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Juvenile works.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780547443188 : $22.00 |
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0547443188 : $22.00 |
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