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Alexandria Black History Museum:

Readings on Senator Joseph McCarthy

Adams, John G. Without Precedent: The Story of the Death of McCarthyism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1983.

Bayley, Edwin R. Joe McCarthy and the Press. New York: Pantheon, 1981.

Caute, David. The Great Fear: The Anti-Communist Purge Under Truman and Eisenhower. New York: Pantheon, 1978.

Cohn, Roy. McCarthy. New York: New American Library, 1968.

Ewald, William Bragg, Jr. Who Killed Joe McCarthy? New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Fariello, Griffin. Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition, An Oral History. New York: Avon, 1995.

Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1971.

Haynes, John Earl and Harvey Klehr. Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Herman, Arthur. Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator. New York: Free Press, 2000.

Morgan, Ted. Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Random House, 2003.

Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 1983.

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental Affairs. Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, Eighty-Third Congress, First Session, 1953. Washington: Government Printing Office, 2003.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/
common/generic/McCarthy_Transcripts.htm

Reeves, Thomas C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography. New York: Stein and Day, 1982.

Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998.

Wallace, H. Lew. “The McCarthy Era,” in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Roger Bruns, eds., Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792-1974. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1975.

Weinstein, Allen and Alexander Vassiliev, The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America–the Stalin Era. New York: Random House, 1999.

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