Product Description: When Cold War tension was at its height, Joseph ("call me Joe") McCarthy conducted an anti-Communist crusade endorsed by millions of Americans, despite his unfair and unconstitutional methods. Award-winning writer James Cross Giblin tells the story of a man whose priorities centered on power and media attention and who stopped at nothing to obtain both...read more

Product Description: Each title provides in-depth background information and descriptions of an important event in history, while considering the causes and effects, the issues at stake, the people involved, the aftermath, and the consequences.

Presents a biography of the unknown first-term senator from Wisconsin who became world famous in the 'nightmare' decade after World War II by charging that Communists had infiltrated the government.