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Machine generated contents note: 1.Formation -- 2. Barons and Jägers -- 3.The Infantry Rifle -- 4.Rebellion -- 5.The Windward and Leeward Islands -- 6.Surinam -- 7.Disagreements, Discharges and Drafts -- 8.Uniforms and Equipment -- 9.Nova Scotia -- 10.Prisoners and Preparations -- 11.Le Petit Guerre -- 12.Rolica and Vimeiro -- 13.Desertion and Recruitment -- 14.Oporto -- 15.Talavera -- 16.Bussaco -- 17.Fuentes de Onoro -- 18.Albuera -- 19.Life on Campaign -- 20.Ciudad Rodrigoand Badajoz -- 21.Salamanca -- 22.Vittoria and the Pyrenees -- 23.The Regiment -- 24.The Nivelle and the Nive -- 25.Orthez and Toulouse -- 26.The End -- 27.Legacy.

From 1950 to 1954 American politics were dominated as never before by one man, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and by the phenomenon of "McCarthyism." Yet many of the questions raised by those years of turmoil and controversy remain unanswered. What was the source and nature of the power that McCarthy wielded over the United States Senate? Why did the members of that body acquiesce, for nearly five years, in his continued abuse of the democratic process? Beyond this, were the McCarthy years aberrational? Did they represent some malfunction in our political machinery? Or were they the natural and inevitable by-product of that system itself?

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