In 1950, a junior senator named Joseph McCarthy went on the offensive against communist subversion. Unlike many other investigators, McCarthy declared that he possessed concrete facts: a list containing the names of Soviet sympathizers holding high ranks in the US government. McCarthy went on to terrorize and abuse people from all walks of life for several years. The senator's investigation into high-ranking military personnel led to his final undoing and censure by the Senate. In retrospect, people believe that McCarthy never had a legitimate list of names and that his attacks were predominantly fabricated, leading to the popular conception of McCarthy as an amoral political opportunist.

What was likely McCarthy's most potent tool in his inquiries?

In retrospect, people believe that McCarthy never had a legitimate list of names and that his attacks were predominantly fabricated, leading to the popular conception of McCarthy as an amoral political opportunist.

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1- in bradbury's  fahrenheit 451, all books are banned and burned upon discovery. in the nazi germany, books considered to be subversive to the regime would be burned to keep the population from generating ideologies that could challenge nazism.

2- was bradbury correct in his literal interpretation of  “where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.”? in some way, yes. when knowledge is not only limited, but also controlled, the people tied to it are led to their demise. just like in the novel, people in nazi germany who owned  subversive books were punished not only by the burning of their property, but also by the discrimination that followed after such a public form of consequence. if a person was seen being confiscated  subversive  books, they may be considered as an ally to the jews, which meant pretty much the same as being the enemy back then. because of the extreme exclusion and suffering that followed this punishment, it's almost like dying a slow death.

in this way, the phrase  “where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.” is both literal and figurative.

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