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Bezig met laden... Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Huntdoor Michael J. Ybarra
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 "Michael J. Ybarra, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, appreciates the difference between McCarthy and McCarthyism. His ''Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt'' is a mammoth biography of one of the most important yet understudied redbaiters of the age. Indeed, Ybarra argues that McCarran, a Nevada Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1932 and served until his death in 1954, matters more than his better-known colleague. Where McCarthy wrought havoc from the helm of the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, McCarran interrogated witnesses as chairman of the Internal Security Subcommittee -- and also headed the powerful Judiciary Committee. But unlike the legislatively lazy McCarthy, McCarran performed the heavy lifting of shepherding major anti-Communist laws through Congress." “Thanks to Michael J. Ybarra’s magisterial and beautifully written book, McCarran’s disquieting place in our history is restored.” “Ybarra’s case for McCarranism over McCarthyism is so strong that this book might become the standard revisionist treatment of high-level hate-mongering in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s. For those who study the craft of biography, Ybarra could become the heir to Robert Caro.” “A richly researched, endlessly entertaining chronicle of what might have been the 20th century’s most tragic, self-destructive politics. Ybarra traces the origins of the period’s hysteria to ‘a conservative reaction’ to the New Deal fueled by ‘rural rancor toward urban elites, nativist dread of encroaching minorities, fundamentalist anxiety over the spread of secular values, and Jeffersonian scorn for a growing and activist government.’” PrijzenOnderscheidingen
"Nevada senator Pat McCarran was a force of nature in American politics, one of the most shrewd and powerful - and vindictive - lawmakers ever to sit in Congress. Joe McCarthy gave his name to the cause of zealous anti-Communism, but it was McCarran, a lifelong Democrat, who actually wrote the laws, held the hearings, and cowed the State and Justice Departments into doing his bidding. "An earth-shaker," Lyndon Johnson once called McCarran, "who impressed his personality deeply and indelibly upon the institution of the Senate and upon the history of the nation." It was McCarran's law that clogged the detention center at Ellis Island with immigrants suspected of being submersives, and it was MaCarran's marathon Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearing that blackmailed the State Department into sacrificing the careers of distinguished diplomats accused of helping the Communists take over China. From Capitol Hill to the United Nations, from union halls to Hollywood, McCarran was feared and despised - and with good reason." "But Pat McCarran's career is not only the story of one man's extraordinary drive to power - the son of illiterate immigrants, McCarran was a sheepherder who taught himself the law and became a famed defense attorney - it is also the epic journey of America from the Great Depression to the Cold War."--BOOK JACKET. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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