His political career essentially ended in 1982 with an unsuccessful bid for his old Senate seat from Minnesota. Since then McCarthy has taught, lectured, and written books.

Since all doubts are accounted in favor of the government, Senator McCarthy's evidence need not ... The most disquieting quote from their book catches the dangers of McCarthyism in dramatic ...

On Feb. 8, 1950, Joe McCarthy, a still-obscure senator from Wisconsin ... Risen begins and ends his book with the story of Helen Reid Bryan, the executive secretary of a small New York charity ...

When Senator McCarthy refused last week to appear in Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom for the pending trial of Professor Wendell Furry, the Senator said he wanted to avoid giving Judge Aldrich a ...

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees who were "known Communists." ...