A Conspiracy So Immense The World of Joe McCarthy

by Oshinsky, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780195154245
• ISBN10: 019515424X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

In this newly updated paperback edition of A Conspiracy So Immense, David Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account available of Joe McCarthy's colorful career.

Author Biography

David Oshinsky is George Littlefield Professor of American History at the University of Texas. His previous books include Worse than Slavery: Parchman farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow, which won the Robert Kennedy prize for its contribution to human rights, and Polio: An American Story (Oxford University Press).

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xii
Beginnings	1	(20)
G.I. Judge	21	(15)
Gunning for the Senate	36	(17)
The Pepsi-Cola Kid	53	(19)
Rock Bottom	72	(13)
The Red Bogey in America, 1917--1950	85	(18)
Wheeling	103	(12)
Battle of the Billygoats	115	(15)
Stand or Fall	130	(9)
The Lattimore Connection	139	(19)
Declaration of Conscience	158	(21)
The Fourth Estate	179	(12)
``An Infamy So Black . . .''	191	(12)
``Slimy Creatures''	203	(11)
Tydings's Revenge	214	(12)
Ike	226	(21)
Gearing for Battle	247	(18)
Voices Within the Voice	265	(21)
Of Diplomats and Greek Ships	286	(15)
Friends and Enemies	301	(14)
A Discouraging Summer	315	(15)
The Monmouth Hearings	330	(15)
White House Blues	345	(10)
Who Promoted Peress?	355	(17)
The Chicken Luncheon	372	(18)
``The Fault, Dear Brutus''	390	(15)
Setting the Ground Rules	405	(11)
The Hearings Begin	416	(19)
Executive Privilege	435	(11)
The Eleven Memoranda	446	(11)
``So Reckless, So Cruel''	457	(15)
Censure	472	(23)
Final Years	495	(14)
Notes	509	(56)
Selective Bibliography	565	(16)
Index	581