Will do.
Arthur Herman wrote a fair, critical but balanced biography of McCarthy worth reading.
I was thinking about the article that you posted and I do have some quibbles with the author. He makes the same mistake that most lefties do, he blames McCarthy for the over reach of the HUAC. McCarthy had nothing to do with the HUAC and those excesses were certainly not limited to Republicans.
I am little sensitive about the HUAC because my grandfather was reported to the HUAC by the CIO Electrical Workers and Machinists Union, of which he was once elected president of the union at RCA. The first and only President of the CIO union at RCA.
The union big shots wanted my grandfather out of the way. First they tried to have him promoted to management so that he couldn’t serve as President, then they had him run down by a car as he stood with my grandmother on the curb in front of their home.
RCA responded to the attack on my grandfather by closing the Camden plant and moving out of state without any of the union workers. When my grandfather recovered from injuries, the people of Camdent County responded by electing him to the NJ State Assembly. The CIO responded by accusing my grandfather of being a communist. His crime was that he was once seen scanning the headlines on a communist newspaper at a newsstand near his bus stop.
The FBI followed him for the rest of his life, even attended his funeral.