Word: mccarthyism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might say that about H.S.T. himself. Historian Richard Freeland, in The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism, argues that "the practices of McCarthyism were Truman's practices in cruder hands, just as the language of McCarthyism was Truman's language in less well-meaning voices." Charles Mee's recent Meeting at Potsdam portrays a vulpine Truman cynically deciding to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima to frighten the Soviets rather than to vanquish an already prostrate enemy...
...godlessness, cruelty, and barbarism." It would be totally unreasonable to suggest that Lindbergh's views on these questions failed to color his perspective on foreign policy. To present the picture, as Cole does, by claiming that Lindbergh suffered from his detractors in the same way that internationalists suffered from McCarthyism is a clear historical distortion. It is apparent that most of those who McCarthy charged with disloyalty, for example, the leading China experts in the State Department, were in fact simply accurate reporters of unwelcome news, punished like harbingers of ill in medieval courts...
...teach people a philosophy not inherent in their lives instead of to let them know what is going on around them. And the praise people like Reston lavished on Lippmann for precisely these qualities--in preference to such things as the ingrained skepticism that kept Lippmann an opponent of McCarthyism or the Vietnam War--speaks sadly, but eloquently, for the state of the American press...
Manchester gives decent journalistic summaries of issues like McCarthyism in the '50s, civil rights in the '60s and Viet Nam. A recurrent device labeled "Portrait of an American" allows him to draw vignettes of his favorite fellow countrymen: Ralph Nader, Dr. Benjamin Spock and, perhaps above all, Norman Thomas ("He was the American Isaiah"). But the Manchester method of history may finally be described as stream-of-schlock, often fascinating though sometimes overwhelming. Figures like Marilyn Monroe ("She exulted in her carnality") and Fiorello LaGuardia ("swashbuckling five-foot-two-inch mayor") coexist in a kind of cartoon version...
...P.O.W., had encouraged prisoners in their "cooperation with the enemy in generating antiwar statements." Clark's position was especially "devastating" to those who had been put in solitary confinement and were trying to maintain their allegiance to their country. In reply, Clark accused Javits of an "orgy of McCarthyism...