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Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and "shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness" (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)
A NYT Week in Review article examines the legitimacy of McCarthyism in light of information recently recovered from Soviet records.
Ranking Democrat John Glenn, D-Ohio, indirectly accused Thompson of McCarthyism and upstaged him by announcing an offer from John Huang to testify in exchange for partial immunity.
Some historians have argued recently that new information makes all forms of American anti-Communism, including even McCarthyism, look better in hindsight.
Perhaps it's because the whole irrational frenzy burst through our door and no newspaper's half-baked insinuating detail passed me by that I think of the McCarthy era as inaugurating the postwar triumph of gossip, as the beginning not just of serious politics but of serious everything as entertainment to amuse the mass audience: McCarthyism as the first postwar flowering of the American unthinking that is now everywhere.