Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt

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“Joe McCarthy’s Cold War witch-hunts targeted people with same-sex attractions as much, maybe more than those with Communist sympathies.” This introduction to Rodger McDaniel’s book sets the stage for a story of the most wretched political blackmail in American history. Lester Hunt used to be the type of person we’d all wish to be part of our national government. Kind and empathetic, honest and hardworking, he used to be as one of his eulogists said, “sick prepared for the cruel, brutal, rough aspect of national partisan politics.” Hunt committed suicide in his Senate office in 1954. His death used to be tragic enough. Yet readers will find even more about which to lament reading of his ordinary life. Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins isn’t just Lester Hunt’s story. It is the story of The usa all the way through the virulent years of the early Cold War, of McCarthyism, and the way the voluntary death of a Wyoming senator helped to bring the curtain down on Joe McCarthy.

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