04114cam a2200541 4500 27363 20230404125816.0 060907s2004 nhu eng funglode27568 2004006627 (OCoLC)ocm54853183 DLC eng DLC OCL BUR AFQ BAKER YDXCP OCLCQ BTCTA XXH NIALS GEBAY OCLCQ 1586420658 (alk. paper) 9781586420659 (alk. paper) YDXCP 2087127 NZ1 8380967 AU@ 000025446099 GEBAY 7370372 (OCoLC)54853183 pcc n-us--- n-us-nv 002 E 748 M478Y 2004 328.73/092 Ybarra, Michael J. Washington gone crazy : senator Pat McCarran and the great American Communist hunt / Michael J. Ybarra. 1st ed. Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2004. 854 p., [32] p. of plates : 1 map, photos. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 764-826) and index. Unruly spirits -- To the last ditch -- Night, noon, and morning -- Where is your blood? -- A time for surprises -- The awakening comes -- Rise up and stamp this thing out of existence -- Copperheads among us -- Mass murder again -- An act of war -- Crude enough for McCarran to understand -- Hell popping -- Who will rule Nevada? -- The edge of hell -- On all evidence -- A one-man Un-American Activities Committee -- Turbulent populations -- Chamber of horrors -- The enemy within -- Burnt offerings -- Names, names -- Day of the McCarrans -- Keep out -- The dead -- Caught in the McCarran act -- Beset with enemies. McCarran was one of the most shrewd and powerful--and vindictive--lawmakers ever to sit in Congress. Joe McCarthy gave his name to the cause of zealous anti-Communism, but it was McCarran, a lifelong Democrat, who actually wrote the laws, held the hearings, and bullied the State and Justice Departments into doing his bidding. McCarran reached the Senate in 1932--and broke ranks with Roosevelt during the New Deal's first week. But it was Truman who would become his real nemesis. McCarran turned his Senate Judiciary Committee into a virtual government within the government. He worked with J. Edgar Hoover to undermine the Truman Administration before McCarthy even got to Washington. He created the most far-reaching anti-sedition law ever enacted in America, which filled Ellis Island with alleged subversives and set up concentration camps to hold suspected traitors. From Capitol Hill to the United Nations, from union halls to Hollywood, McCarran's wrath broke careers and lives and ultimately cost his party control of the Senate. Ybarra's narrative shows that McCarran was half right: There really were Communists in Washington--but it was the hunt for them that did the real damage--From publisher description. McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954. Legislators United States Biography. United States. Congress. Senate Biography. Anti-communist movements United States History 20th century. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities. United States Politics and government 1901-1953. Nevada Politics and government 20th century. Online version: Ybarra, Michael J. Washington gone crazy. 1st ed. Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2004 (OCoLC)649858909 Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004006627.html Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004006627.html Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0416/2004006627.html Baker and Taylor BTCP 2004006627 YBP Library Services YANK 2173565 Baker & Taylor BKTY 35.00 26.25 1586420658 0006002855 active lcc bk C0 DRFGD 5171 5171 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2018-10-23 1 0 002 E 748 M478Y 2004 00000028028 2018-10-23 00:00:00 1 2018-10-23 bk