Editing Joseph McCarthy (section)

===Secondary sources===
* Anderson, Jack and May, Ronald W (1952). ''McCarthy: the man, the Senator, the "ism",'' Beacon Press.
* {{cite book
  |last = Bayley
  |first = Edwin R.
  |title = Joe McCarthy and the Press
  |publisher = University of Wisconsin Press
  |year=  1981
  |isbn = 0-299-08624-0}}
* {{cite book|last = Belfrage
  |first = Cedric
  |author-link = Cedric Belfrage
  |title = The American Inquisition, 1945–1960: A Profile of the "McCarthy Era"
  |publisher = Thunder's Mouth Press
  |year = 1989
  |isbn = 0-938410-87-3
  |url = https://archive.org/details/americaninquisit00cedr
  }}
* {{cite book
 |last = Buckley
 |first = William F.
 |author-link = William F. Buckley Jr.
 |year = 1954
 |title = McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning
 |publisher = Regnery Publishing
 |isbn = 0-89526-472-2}}
* Caballero, Raymond. ''McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks.'' Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
* Crosby, Donald F. "The Jesuits and Joe McCarthy". ''Church History'' 1977 46(3): 374–388. {{ISSN|0009-6407}} [https://www.jstor.org/pss/3164134 Fulltext: in Jstor]
* {{cite book
  |last = Daynes
  |first = Gary
  |title = Making Villains, Making Heroes: Joseph R. McCarthy, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Politics of American Memory
  |publisher = Taylor & Francis
  |year=  1997
  |isbn = 0-8153-2992-X}}
* {{cite book
  |last = Evans
  |first = M. Stanton
  |author-link = M. Stanton Evans
  |title = Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
  |publisher = Three Rivers Press
  |year=  2007
  |isbn = 978-1-4000-8106-6}}
* {{cite book
  |last = Freeland
  |first = Richard M.
  |title = The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946–1948
  |publisher = New York University Press
  |year=  1985
  |isbn = 0-8147-2576-7}}
* Fried, Richard M. ''A Genius for Confusion Joseph R. McCarthy and the Politics of Deceit'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), the most recent major scholarly biography.
* {{cite book
  |last = Fried
  |first = Richard M.
  |title = Men Against McCarthy
  |publisher = Columbia University Press
  |year=  1977
  |isbn = 0-231-08360-2}} [https://archive.org/details/menagainstmccart0000frie online]
  
* Gauger, Michael. "Flickering Images: Live Television Coverage and Viewership of the Army-McCarthy Hearings". ''Historian'' 2005 67(4): 678–693. {{ISSN|0018-2370}} Fulltext: in Swetswise, Ingenta and Ebsco. Audience ratings show that few people watched the hearings.
* {{cite book
  |last = Latham
  |first = Earl
  |title = Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy
  |publisher = Macmillan Publishing Company
  |year=  1969
  |isbn = 0-689-70121-7}}
* {{cite book | title=American Demagogues: Twentieth Century| chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/americandemagogu0000luth| chapter-url-access=registration| publisher=Beacon Press | author=Luthin, Reinhard H. | author-link=Reinhard H. Luthin | year=1954 | chapter=Ch. 11: Joseph R. McCarthy: Wisconsin's Briefcase Demagogue |pages=272–301|oclc=1098334|asin=B0007DN37C|lccn=54-8228}}
* {{cite journal |last=Morgan |first=Ted |title=Judge Joe: How the youngest judge in Wisconsin's history became the country's most notorious senator |journal=Legal Affairs |date=November–December 2003 |url=http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/November-December-2003/story_morgan_novdec03.msp |access-date=January 13, 2006 |archive-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429124425/https://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/November-December-2003/story_morgan_novdec03.msp |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite book |last=O'Brien |first=Michael |title=McCarthy and McCarthyism in Wisconsin |publisher=Olympic Marketing Corp |year=1980 |isbn=0-8262-0319-1 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/mccarthymccarthy00obri }}
* Oshinsky, David M. ''A conspiracy so immense : the world of Joe McCarthy''(1985), a major scholarly biography. [https://archive.org/details/conspiracysoimme00oshi online]
* {{cite book
  |last = Ranville
  |first = Michael
  |title = To Strike at a King: The Turning Point in the McCarthy Witch-Hunt
  |publisher = Momentum Books Limited
  |year=  1996
  |isbn = 1-879094-53-3}}
* Reeves, Thomas C. ''The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography'' (1997), a major scholarly biography. [https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofjoemc0000reev online]
* {{cite journal
  | last = Reeves
  | first = Thomas C.
  | title = The Search for Joe McCarthy
  | journal = Wisconsin Magazine of History
  | volume = 60
  | issue = 3
  | date =Spring 1997
  | pages = 185–196
  | url = http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/34091
  | access-date = December 4, 2016
| archive-date = December 20, 2016
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161220075209/http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/wmh/id/34091
  | url-status = live
  }}
* {{cite book
  |last = Rosteck
  |first = Thomas
  |title = See It Now Confronts McCarthyism: Television Documentary and the Politics of Representation
  |url = https://archive.org/details/seeitnowconfront0000rost
  |url-access = registration
  |publisher = University of Alabama Press
  |year=  1994
  |isbn = 0-8173-5191-4}}
* {{cite book
  |last = Strout
  |first = Lawrence N.
  |title = Covering McCarthyism: How the Christian Science Monitor Handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950–1954
  |publisher = Greenwood Press
  |year=  1999
  |isbn = 0-313-31091-2}}
* {{cite book |last1=Tye |first1=Larry |author-link=Larry Tye |title=Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy |date=2020 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |location=New York |isbn=978-1328959720}}
* {{cite book|last = Wicker
 |first = Tom
 |author-link = Tom Wicker
 |year = 2006
 |title = Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy
 |publisher = Harcourt
 |isbn = 0-15-101082-X
 |url = https://archive.org/details/shootingstarbrie00wick
 }}