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While Chafe only devotes a small amount of attention to McCarthyism, he frames the issue in a different way from Rovere. In his work, Chafe is reserved in the mentioning of McCarthy’s name, while Rovere’s book’s content revolves around who McCarthy was and what he did to arouse the anti-Communist feeling that existed in America during the post-war years of WWII. Both Chafe and Rovere are thorough in explaining the events in American society during the post-Cold War years; however, they blame different sources for the anti-Communist feeling that took place in the late 1940’s and 1950’s.
In The Unfinished Journey, William Chafe states, “like a seasonal allergy, anticommunism has recurred at regular intervals throughout twentieth-century history” (p 93). In other words, Chafe makes the point that this anti- Communist feeling has been prevalent in America even before McCarthy became a powerful figure in the states. When the economy collapsed in 1933, Roosevelt was President, and......

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