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Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt cover

Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and the Great American Communist Hunt

Michael Ybarra

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#3534 of 3,809 books · #1162 in Biography & Memoir

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography (2004).

Pat McCarran was a sheepherder who taught himself the law and became a famed defense attorney. The son of illiterate immigrants, he possessed an extraordinary drive to power that took him from Capitol Hill to the United Nations, from union halls to Hollywood, where he was feared and despised—and with good reason. But Pat McCarran's career is not only the story of one man's extraordinary drive to power. It is also the epic journey of America from the Great Depression to the Cold War.

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Cold War anti-communismMcCarthyism and political persecutionAmerican political history

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