The Age of McCarthyism A Brief History with Documents Analysis

Based on the second edition of "The Age of McCarthyism: A brief history with documents" by Ellen Schrecker, an evidently important thesis rules it. Quite honestly, Ellen Schrecker debates on Joseph McCarthy's name being hugely involved in this period. In her book, she depicts the best overview of the post-world war II. Beginning with an introduction, closely fetched from the communist party – The United States of America; its past along with the continued changes of the party's leadership. Schrecker juxtaposes in a more comprehensive, detailed and nuanced discussion, the USA's foundation in 1919 and the beginning of the second world war II. While McCarthy used Hoover's like the fountain of information, Edgar, on the other hand, saw McCarthy's political position and used it to his advantage to fight a proxy war.

Although Schrecker presents the events as a "direct purge" to the Stalinist repression of the 1930s, contrary to her claims, however, " the nation's political and social elites"(p. 2) was perfectly based on domestic and foreign communists on which Hoover laid emphasis. The consequences to these, several claims and critics were provoked. Thus, the majority, both citizens and politicians and other governmental stakeholders for the anti-communist charged that communists had infiltrated the New Deal (p. From his side of view, heresy is rather beneficial to the nations and not detrimental as a conspiracy is. Moreover, conspiracy and communist’s ideas were considerably loose tactic based on vague and unsubstantiated accusations for political ends, exploitation of hysterical public fears and persecution of innocent, harmless dissidents (p.