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Mar 2021
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The Red Scare | Tail Gunner Joe | 1

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Joseph McCarthy dreams of a bigger life. He wants something beyond the farms of Wisconsin, something more important than cornfields and local disputes. He wants political power in Washington, D.C. And he has a plan to get it.


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