Joseph Mccarthy: A Tragic Hero

Joseph McCarthy was a known senator who accused innocent people of being communists which at the time being communists made you a threat to the whole country. Joseph McCarthy was a man who had financial problems when he was young and he had to work all his way up from nothing to being a wealthy man. He was a hardworking man who sometimes did good things but other times didn't. In his early years Joseph McCarthy had financial problems which meant he basically had no real income to feed himself. “The McCarthy’s did not have much money, and neither did their neighbors” (SHERROW, 10). Since McCarthy needed to bring more income for his family he quit school at the age of 14 and got a fulltime job. “In 1922, at age 14, McCarthy decided to work full-time instead of going to school” (SHERROW, 12). “But disease wiped out his flock. McCarthy lost all his money at the age of 20, so he started working as a clerk in an Appleton grocery store, he quickly became the manager” (Reeves). McCarthy made a decent income from raising chickens and selling their eggs but one day a disease came and wiped his flock which made him broke and forced him to work as an Appleton grocery store, he quickly became the manager of that store.
In the year of 1929, Joseph McCarthy had no choice but to transfer cities and work at another grocery store. This
"This moment was almost two months after Senator Joseph McCarthy made his infamous accusation that he held in his hand a list of 205 known Communists in the federal government" (Naoko Shibusawa). In the speech McCarthy stated he had over 200 names of people who were communists working inside the government. This was a big deal because being communist back then you were looked at like a threat and no one liked you. In the list of the 200 people all the people's lives were ruined and put to