Still, comparisons between Mccarthyism and Boykinism only go so far.
The quickness of Ginzburg's conviction was also under the influence of Mccarthyism.
This happened at the height of Mccarthyism at the end of the 1940s.
Mccarthyism, which accused everyone from leftist filmmakers to President Harry
Truman of conspiring with Moscow.
Unlike Mccarthyism, it doesn't strike fear into the hearts of incumbents
on the campaign trail here.
During the 1950s, Asimov also wrote some of
his finest short stories:“The Martian Way”(1952), an allegory about Mccarthyism;
Mccarthyism became a broad political
and cultural phenomenon that ultimately tarnished the benevolent global reputation of the United States.
In terms of foreign policy, the effect of Mccarthyism, if anything, was to reinforce an already existing anti-communist consensus.
Mccarthyism merely reaffirmed that communists were indeed the enemy,
while making the political price of thinking otherwise too high to contemplate.
The 1950s introduced America to one of the darkest and most illiberal ideas in its political and social history- Mccarthyism.
The outstanding features of Mccarthyism were the Hollywood blacklisting of artists and intellectuals,
and the notorious“Hearings” of the House Un-American Activities Committee- perhaps the most ironically named committee in the history of the United States.