books.google.com - Was the communist witch-hunt unleashed by Senator Joe McCarthy an aberration, or has red scare politics been an intrinsic part of American political life since the 1930s? Was McCarthyism a populist or an elitist phenomenon? Was Senator McCarthy virtually irrelevant to the phenomenon?McCarthy's Americans...http://books.google.com/books/about/McCarthy_s_Americans.html?id=jefinONW0pQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMcCarthy's Americans