Joe McCarthy - Part 1: The Power of Personality

10/12/20 • 39 min

At one point Joe McCarthy was amongst the most powerful and dangerous of people, what specifically within his character, personality and earlier life experiences enabled him to rise from poor farm boy to senator to demagogue?

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Personology - Joe McCarthy - Part 1: The Power of Personality

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Personology is a production of I Heart Radio. Joseph McCarthy was a Republican U S Senator from the state of Wisconsin from seven until his death in nineteen fifty seven. He was the public face of the nineteen fifties fears and resulting political activism during the United States versus Soviet Union Cold War tensions regarding communists subversion in the United States. He alleged that numerous Communists, Soviet spies, and sympathizers had infi