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A Conspiracy So Immense
David M. Oshinsky
其他書名
The World of Joe McCarthy
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2005
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Political
History / United States / 20th Century
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Political Science / American Government / Legislative Branch
Political Science / Security (National & International)
ISBN
019515424X
9780195154245
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=738dzm-R-5EC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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Acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of the life of Senator Joe McCarthy has been called both "nuanced" and "masterful." In this new paperback edition Oshinsky presents us with a work heralded as the finest account available of Joe McCarthy's colorful career. With a storyteller's eye for the dramatic and presentation of fact, and insightful interpretation of human complexity, Oshinsky uncovers the layers of myth to show the true McCarthy. His book reveals the senator from his humble beginnings as a hardworking Irish farmer's son in Wisconsin to his glory days as the architect of America's Cold War crusade against domestic subversion; a man whose advice if heeded, some believe, might have halted the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and beyond.
A Conspiracy So Immense reveals the internal and external forces that launched McCarthy on this political career, carried him to national prominence, and finally triggered his decline and fall. More than the life of an intensly- even pathologically- ambitious man however, this book is a fascinating portrait of America in the grip of Cold War fear, anger, suspician, and betrayal.
Complete with a new Foreword, A Conspiracy So Immense will continue to keep in the spotlight this historical figure-a man who worked so hard to prosecute "criminals" whose ideals work against that of his- for America.