What is Joseph McCarthy's legacy?

The Age of McCarthyism. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Marvin's Press, 1994. (pp. 92-94). In the late 1950s a group of graduate students at the University of Chicago wanted to have a coffee vending machine installed outside the Physics Department for the convenience of people who worked there late at night. read more

McCarthy Joseph Peacefully at home on March 26th, aged 70. Joe beloved husband of Mandy (née Bateman), much loved dad of Graham and Leigh, son of the late Bob and Hannah, brother of Sylvia and Alan and the late Bob. read more

McCarthy's legacy to me would be: A demonstration of the dangers of assigning enemy status to a group of people and taking that to the point where the government is used as a tool to marginalize and persecute private citizens. read more