The Smearing of Joe McCarthy

The Lavender Scare, Gossip, and Cold War Politics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23137387
AutoresAndrea Friedman (autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Páginas203-223
Fecha de publicación2014-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaWhen Private Talk Goes Public (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137442307_11
OpenAlexW1985486416
ISBN9781137442307
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas21

Despite historians' best efforts to disassociate the anti-communist purges of the post-World War II era from one individual's extreme behavior, the early Cold War years continue to be known as the McCarthy era, and Senator Joseph McCarthy remains a symbol—perhaps the paramount symbol—of irrationality and illegitimacy in American politics. His fall from grace in 1954 likewise denotes the return to moral order and political sanity. McCarthy did not introduce the practices and policies of political repression and sexual oppression that constituted the domestic Cold War, and many of those practices and policies outlasted him. Nonetheless, he inhabits our memories as their most visceral representation. The man—his name, his face, as much as his behavior—stands for the era.1KeywordsCultural DiplomacyImperial BrotherhoodSexual OppressionVisceral RepresentationEuropean PressThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Cold war · Communism · Criminology · Economic history · Face (sociological concept) · Irrationality · Lust · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sanity · Social science · Sociology · Symbol (formal) · Vietnam War · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · History · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies