Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare Anna-Marie McLemore she demonstrates again and again

she demonstrates again and again the compelling paradox at the heart of neurology: that even the most peculiar symptoms can show us something universal about ourselves as humans

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and of a queer family battling for their right to live

She went on to create Black Liturgies

Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare Anna-Marie McLemore she demonstrates again and againA cutting edge look into a pivotal moment in US history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down communists in the US, citizens grew terrified of being accused, so they turned on each other pointing fingers at neighbors, friends,