SHOOTING STAR：THE BRIEF ARC OF JOE MCCARTHY

Book ID/图书代码： 05950006B01145

English Summary/英文概要： Joe McCarthy first became visible to the nation on February 9, 1950, when he delivered a Lincoln Day address to local Republicans in Wheeling, West Virginia. That night he declared, "I have here in my hand a list of 205 [members of the Communist Party] still working and shaping policy in the State Department." Anticommunism was already a cause embraced by the Republican Party as a whole; McCarthy tapped into this current and turned it into a flood. Little more than five years later, after countless hearings and stormy speeches and after incalculable damage to ordinary Americans and the nation itself, McCarthy’s Senate colleagues voted sixty-seven to twenty-two to censure him for his reckless accusations and fabrications. We know today that not one prosecution resulted from McCarthy’s investigations into communists in the U.S. government.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1950年2月9日,Joe McCarthy 的名字第一次让大家所以认识,当他把Lincoln Day 的地址不择手段的交给了维吉尼亚的地方共和党. 那天晚上他宣告:他有一份为共产党工作的成员名单,当中记录了205个人.当时反共主义已经陷入了共和党的包围中了，McCarthy也被卷入了这股洪流中。在5年之后，在数不尽的激烈的演讲和数以万计对美国普通公民伤害后，McCarthy参议院的同事谴责他那不计后果的行为。
Tom Wicker调查了McCarthy的野心和档案，尝试着去发现他散布谣言的动机。

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About the Author/作者介绍： TOM WICKER began covering national politics for the New York Times in 1960. He is the author of ten novels and nine works of nonfiction, including biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Herbert Walker Bush. He lives in Vermont.

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