Because Quote by William Gibson

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful…

— Warren Farrell

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in…

— Kirk Douglas

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned…

— Lionel Shriver

“somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that…

— David Halberstam

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists…

— Ken Follett

“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were…

— Jonathan Kirsch

The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the…

— Ann Coulter

“There are significant analogues between the American fear of Communism during the McCarthy era and the American fear of Islam at the beginning of…

— Ben Daniel

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.

— Irwin Shaw

McCarthy shakes his head in agreement with the referee.

— Martin Tyler

“Noble again chose Larry McCarthy, the veteran media consultant who was known for his ability to distill a complicated subject into a simple, potent,…

— Jane Mayer

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene…

— George Packer