http://reason.com/blog/2014/04/22/four-great-myths-of-the-mccarthy-era
"Today McCarthy has come to symbolize the entire postwar Red Scare,
allowing the hearings to serve as a tidy end to a tidy story about a
demagogue who attained outsized influence and then was cut down to size.
But the crusade against Communist subversion that marked the late 1940s
and the '50s began before McCarthy seized the issue; and if his downfall
was a sign that those fears were fading, it did not bring them to an
end. The biggest myth of the McCarthy era is that it was a McCarthy era,
rather than an episode in which McCarthy was merely one of the most
noisy and irresponsible figures."
Significant events are mythologised even as they're happening and
continue to solidify with time, though the reality is usually more
complex and messy.
Via Kee Hinckley.
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