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Covering McCarthyism : how the "Christian Science Monitor" handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954

This volume examines how the "Christian Science Monitor", an influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and "McCarthyism" from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through to his censure in December 1954.
Print Book, English, 1999
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1999
XIX, 171 Seiten.
9780313310911, 0313310912
231834537
PrefaceIntroduction1950: McCarthyism Begins1951: McCarthy's Character Assassinations1952: McCarthy in the National Spotlight1953: McCarthy versus the Press and the Eisenhower Administration1954: McCarthy's DemiseThe Legacy: The Monitor and McCarthyBibliographyIndex