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Assassination of Joe McCarthy Hardcover – January 1, 1970

by Medford Evans (Author)

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English
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Western Islands
Publication date

January 1, 1970
ISBN-10

0882792172
ISBN-13

978-0882792170
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Robert K. Wilcox
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Western Islands; First Edition (January 1, 1970)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0882792172
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0882792170
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds

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Gene Birkeland

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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2007

Sorry to have been so late in reading this superbly written recap of events of that era. As one who lived through those times, I could never comprehend how any individual in the government who became ill would allow themselves to be taken to a government run hospital. The story of the death of Trotsky's son in a Paris hospital should warn any outstanding conservative about how vulnerable the sick person is. McCarthy was victimized by every machination of the internationalists who seized control of the Republican 1952 nomination through the Texas delegation where they falsely charged Taft-MacArthur with theft -- when it was they who did the stealing! The two greatest speeches at that convention were those of MacArthur and McCarthy -- they sure woke me up and ought to be revived. Anyway, Evans command of language is marvelous.
Ellen McClay, author In the Presence of Our Enemies.

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WestSideDavid

A book of staggering mistakes throughout

Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2022

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The Assassination of Joe McCarthy by Medford Evans is not a serious work of history. It is a “biography” of the Senator from Wisconsin only in the sense that it follows loosely the life of Joe McCarthy which Evans continually drapes in a morality play trying to stir his readers to take up McCarthy’s cause. Evans claims that Joe McCarthy was assassinated, with no evidence (none!), only pure speculation blaming Communists (or Satanists) for the deed. Foregoing evidence, Evans contends that evil men must have killed McCarthy, because they were desperate to prevent a political comeback by this greatest champion of anti-Communist crusading. More conventional biographers, relying on research rather than dogmas, have repeatedly offered evidence that McCarthy drank himself to death, resulting in severe alcoholic hepatitis and liver failure. Ah, but such purveyors of “official doctrine” are merely nuisances to be cast aside to reach the necessary final scene in Medford Evans’ story. It might be better titled “The Martyrdom of St. Joseph McCarthy.”
Over the years, various authors have written defenses Senator Joseph McCarthy. Of these, this is the most strident; it is also the least effective. From the outset Evans sets up a guiding image that he carries throughout his account: Joe McCarthy was a gentle, innocent soul, a patriot driven but love for his country to fight to protect it from Communist infiltration and subversion that he believed held a straight razor over the jugular vein of America. McCarthy’s motives were absolutely pure and faultless. From this, Evans reasons that anyone who opposed McCarthy must have been part of the monstrous Communist conspiracy against America.
Evans sees everything in the McCarthy era and since as carrying on the great clash between Christian democracy and Communist atheism. He holds McCarthy up as embodying pure Americanism; and insists that even in death, the Senator should be America’s lodestar. Showing how far Evans presses his argument, he sees the 1969 UCLA faculty senate vote to allow Angela Davis to join the UCLA philosophy department preeminently as a rejection of McCarthy. Only with him “cold in his grave” did the Bruin faculty dare vote (551 to 4) “for Angela and open Communism.” Angela? Evans is correct on one point, “Such a spectacle would have been impossible in the McCarthy era.”
Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of Joseph McCarthy, the McCarthy Era, or serious historical writing will find book a failure. Anyone who knew the chill over the nation as McCarthy crusaded may feel the book is a tragic farce. Evans eventually declares that McCarthy’s opponents were in league with Satan, a fact that may cause readers to give the book a final yawn and put it aside forever.

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V-ROD

Will a man like this ever exist again?

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2013

When I first heard about this book I had read it dealt with the possible murder of one Joe McCarthy. There is slight references to it in the book, but it is spoken of in generalities. But it does offer a hypothetical murder scenario. I did find it interesting that James Forrestal, John Kennedy, and Joe McCarthy all ended up in the Bethesda Naval Hospital. You can draw your own conclusions. Nevertheless, this book deals with the political assassination of McCarthy.
The author explains McCarthy's shock when he learns of Pres.Eisenhower's idea for the U.S. and the Soviets to turn over their nuclear armaments to the United Nations. The obvious fear of this nation losing superiority militarily, and the possibility of corruption and theft of armaments and technology. McCarthy was absolutely opposed to the idea that the communist regime and our Republic could co-exist. They are diametrically opposed!
The rest of the book describes McCarthy's life and then focuses on his battles in the Senate committees. The author describes how history has been twisted in certain circumstances to villify McCarthy, when in fact he was right in his accusations. He describes "behind the scene" situations of the plan to politically ruin McCarthy. In the end they did succeed, and I'm sure he was heartbroken that many of his friends and colleagues had turned on him.
Joe McCarthy was a man of integrity, honor and dignity. He loved his country and was detirmined to see it continue as a moral beacon for the world. He also was a man of humor who could laugh at himself. He recalled as a tail gunner in WWII, his company gave him a plaque "for destroying more cocoanut trees than anyone else". But underneath this humor Joe McCarthy knew the battle he was fighting. He describes it himself. "We are engaged in a final all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity."

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. (2 Timothy 3:12 KJV)

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