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- Title
Joe McCarthy, Brief-Case Demagogue.
- Authors
Baskerville, Barnet
- Abstract
This article asserts that U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy is the greatest demagogue of the 1950's. On February 9, 1959, McCarthy startled the Women's Republican Club at Wheeling, West Virginia, with the charge that a large number of Communist Party members was shaping foreign policy in the U.S. State Department with the knowledge and consent of the Secretary of State. The people in the U.S., at the time McCarthy delivered his speech, were confused and fearful. Instead of reducing the confusion, McCarthy with his charges of treachery, compounded it. McCarthy has used many of the techniques employed by demagogues of the past--sensationalism, exaggeration, oversimplification, invective. But he has used them in his own way and for his own unique purposes.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MCCARTHY, Joseph, 1908-1957; DEMAGOGUES; COMMUNISM; PUBLIC speaking
- Publication
Today's Speech, 1954, Vol 2, Issue 3, p8
- ISSN
0040-8573
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/01463375409389455