McCarthy

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• SOURCE: The Salt Lake Tribune
  1/26/20
  

  Ike deserves more credit for bringing down McCarthy

  by Dennis Lythgoe

  “The best treatment of McCarthy is to ignore him. That is one thing he cannot stand.”

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• 1/5/19
  

  New PBS Documentary "McCarthy" Highlights a Tumultuous Time in Our History

  by Julia Brown

  Director Sharon Grimberg discusses her new documentary "McCarthy," premiering on American Experience January 6, 2020. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  After nearly 70 years, Republicans have stopped defending Joe McCarthy.

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• 4/2/19
  

  The Red Scare: From the Palmer Raids to Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope with the threat he represents every day.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8-22-18
  

  NYU's Stephen F. Cohen continues to dismiss theories of Russian collusion

  He says former CIA Director John Brennan's statements about Trump echo Jospeh McCarthy and J. Edgar Hoover

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• 4-2-17
  

  The Red Scare: A Grandparents’ Story that Seems All-too-Relevant in the Age of Trump

  by Jeremy Stern

  My grandparents fled Tsarist Russia to escape persecution for their ideas and their Judaism. They found a far freer nation ‒ but also reminders that freedom is not always secure, even in America.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  1-6-17
  

  The Millionaire Who Took on McCarthy

  by Gil Troy

  William Benton was an advertising icon and wildly successful investor—and with those millions backing him up, he took on the country’s scariest politician.

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• SOURCE: The National
  1-9-17
  

  Ellen Schrecker offers lessons on how to survive Trumpism

  by Ellen Schrecker

  An expert on the McCarthy Era, she writes from experience and research.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  1-1-17
  

  Remember John Paton Davies Jr., John Stewart Service & John Carter Vincent?

  In the US they were scorned in the McCarthy era, but at a China museum they’re lionized.