Originally published as a section of the author's larger "American Demagogues: Twentieth Century" (1954), this Kindle edition explores the notorious career of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who in the early 1950s launched a campaign against alleged communists in the U.S. government and other institutions. Many of the accused, most of whom did not in fact belong to the Communist Party, were blacklisted or lost their jobs. Arthur Miller's famous...