Joseph McCarthy: The Misuse of Political Power

by Daniel Cohen

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A biography of the Wisconsin Senator whose questionable methods as a "Communist witch-hunter" brought him fame in the decade after World War II and led to his eventual censure by the United States Senate.

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Daniel Cohen was born Daniel Edward Reba in Chicago, Illinois on March 12, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. He worked at Time magazine and Science Digest before he began writing books. His books for children and teenagers dealt with ghosts, U.F.O.s, the occult, ESP, vampires, werewolves, show more conspiracies, cloning, weather, and the human genome. He also wrote biographies of the astronomer Carl Sagan and Jesse Ventura. His only child, Theodora Cohen, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. He and his wife Susan Cohen exhaustively sought justice for their daughter and the 269 other victims of the bombing. They wrote several books together including When Someone You Know Is Gay and Pan Am 103: The Bombing, the Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice. He died from sepsis on May 6, 2018 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Joseph McCarthy
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Anti-communist Movements -- USA

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Nonfiction, Tween
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973.921History & geographyHistory of North AmericaUnited States1901-Cold War, Vietnam War, Digital Age (1953-2001)Dwight D. Eisenhower,1st Term (1953-1961) Brown V. Board of Education, Interstate Highway System, Geneva Summit
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E743.5 .M2 .C65History of the United StatesUnited StatesTwentieth centuryGeneralPolitical historyUn-American activities

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