Timeline for Request to reopen the Joe McCarthy question
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| Aug 26, 2013 at 15:09 | comment | added | coleopterist | And I humbly submit that the number of novelists writing with an explicit anti-commie agenda during the Second Red Scare would very likely pale in comparison. But that is beside the point. Why is a question about composers deemed better simply because the scope is more limited? Either question is still a valid history question. Furthermore, Felix's note (if valid) about Heinlein's interest in McCarthy makes this a perfectly valid question with a "tangible reason" to enquire if McCarthy evinced a similar interest in RAH. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | T.E.D. Mod | @coleopterist - Well, the logic of my answer would dictate that your question would be better, just because the pool of contemporary famous composers is much more limited. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 14:12 | comment | added | coleopterist | @FelixGoldberg I'd be interested in reading the evidence and perhaps using it to render a different spin to my question. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 14:12 | comment | added | coleopterist | No, what would then be a good question would be whether McCarthy utilised any of these novels in his campaign. I don't see why there has to be a more tangible reason than contemporaneity. "Did Mozart ever meet Beethoven?" is a perfectly good question as they were both contemporaries in a similar field as is "Did Beethoven ever meet Napoleon?" as they were prominent contemporaries notwithstanding the Eroica connection. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 13:45 | comment | added | T.E.D. Mod | Interestingly, the storyline of Day of the Triffids is at least fairly different than Heinlein's work. However, when the movie was made, it's plot was essentially a mashup of the two (with a dash of War of the Worlds thrown in). | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 13:42 | comment | added | Felix Goldberg | This is a very good point. I actually found some evidence that Heinlein rather approved of McCarthy's actions (though not of the man himself) but so far nothing indicates a conneciton in the other direction. To push the analogy with my question about young callow unknown Ben-Gurion and Trotsky in 1917 - it makes sense, imho, to ask if Ben-Gurion was interested in Trotsky but not vice versa. | |
| Aug 26, 2013 at 13:40 | history | edited | T.E.D.Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 26, 2013 at 13:34 | history | answered | T.E.D.Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |