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The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy
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The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy

By Andrew Bernstein

Nov 20, 2016
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Joseph McCarthy is the most unjustly demonized individual in American history.

In February 1950, McCarthy, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, launched a massive campaign against alleged Communists and Soviet agents working for, and perhaps spying on, the U.S. government. In Senate hearings stretching across much of the first half of the 1950s, he accus…

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