Volume 33, Number 14 · September 25, 1986
The Siege
By C. Vann Woodward
No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities
by Ellen W. Schrecker
Oxford University Press, 437 pp., $20.95
McCarthyism began earlier and lasted longer than the notoriety of the senator from Wisconsin who gave the phenomenon its name. In Ellen Schrecker's account he is characterized as 'the most unsavory' of the numerous inquisitors, but otherwise receives little attention. More than half of her book is devoted to the years and events preceding Joseph McCarthy's appearance on stage in 1950 and much more than that before he gains any prominence in her narrative, if he ever does. But for an occasional offstage growl and a one-line snarl or two he remains more a symbol than a participant.
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