Joseph R. McCarthy

Joseph R. McCarthy

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wisc), was one of the most controversial senators in U.S. congressional history. He was best know for his investigations of Communists in the U.S. Government as well as his related investigations into the U.S. Army and other governmental agencies regarding communist infiltration and/or influence.

So many articles and books have been written about him that it would fill up a book on its own just to list them. Therefore selected articles and publications will be listed here to help researchers and journalists have a mini-library of potential resources on the subject of Sen. McCarthy.

Books About Sen. Joseph McCarthy

• "McCarthy and the Communists", James Rorty & Moshe Decter, 1954, Beacon Press, Boston, Mass, ppb. LOC Catalog card number: 54-11622

• "Without Precedent: The Story of the Death of McCarthyism", John G. Adams, 1983, Norton. Adams was "the counsel for the Army." Book review in the Washington Post, Feb. 26, 1983, Style section, by [[Edwin R. Bayley], Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Author of "Joe McCarthy and the Press."

• "Joe McCarthy and the Press", John G. Adams.

• McCarthy, M. Stanton Evans, 200?

• "The Malmedy Massacre", Richard Gallagher, ppb., 1964, Paperback Library, Inc. See Chapter Seven: Newton's Third Law, about Sen. McCarthy, on the word of German-Americans from Wisconsin, accusing Lt. William Perl of torturing S.S. "German POWS". Gallagher put some of the investigations of McCarthy's 1946 charges in this chapter, revealing that McCarthy, then a freshman politician, had been duped by his Bundist constitutents and the Lt. Perl never harmed those he was interrogating for war crimes, i.e. the Malmedy Massacre by the S.S. Blowtorch Division.

Newspaper Articles About McCarthy and Roy Cohn

Roy Cohn was the Chief Counsel to the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee chaired by Sen. McCarthy in 1952 and 1953, as well as a prosecution counsel in the Rosenberg spy case of 1951

• "Cohn on the Rosenbergs, McCarthy and Death Penalty", an interview by Washington Times writer Tom Diaz, reprinted in the conservative weekly Human Events, Feb. 12, 183, Pp. 11-12. An interesting interview on these subjects from the man who was in the center of them. References to two extreme leftist congressmen in this interview - Rep. John Conyers Jr (D-Mich) and George W. Crockett Jr (D-Mich).