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Essay on McCarthyism was more than just McCarthy | ||
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This is the first 1,000 characters of 3461 words (13.84 pages) in the essay titled McCarthyism was more than just McCarthy McCarthy gave his name to an age, but there was far more to McCarthyism than McCarthyMcCarthy may have given his name to an era but there was much more to McCarthyism than just one man. In this essay the argument will be that there were many factors leading up to the McCarthy era both internal and external and that McCarthy found a platform in anticommunist fear, as it was popular issue at the time. And his fall from grace in 1954 may also be attributed to both internal and external factors that appeared to alleviate the anticommunist threat. Today we call it the McCarthy era. While convenient, the tribute is not without reason. McCarthy’s villainy was so plain that his name became a curse in the year of his control. Characterised as ‘crass and unprincipled, an unimaginative opportunist, and a distinctly second rate politician’, McCarthy was also a ‘shrewd judge of public attitudes and temper’ . This blend made him an overpowering enemy. Elected into the senate in 1946 McCarthy was almost invisible on the public scene until 9 February 1950 . It was then in Wheeling, West Virginia, that he stumbled upon his cause. But the elements of McCarthyism were hardly McCarthy’s alone, nor did they diminish after his fall. Joe McCarthy was just one, and not the brightest, of the many inquisitors of the time. He was not a resourceful as his friend J. Edgar Hoover . While McCarthy made the notion of security risks in the federal bureaucracy a national obsession from 1950 to 1954, the... |
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Keywords: joe mccarthy, federal bureau of investigations, mccarthyism, shrewd judge, opportunist, fbi, crass, villainy, j edgar hoover, mccarthys, federal bureaucracy, external factors, national obsession, smith act, public attitudes, wheeling west virginia, fall from grace, security risks, layed