Blacklisted by History has been out a long time, and Ann Coulter has written extensively about this as well. Yet continued ignorance of the true facts about Joe McCarthy by people who should know better has been illustrated recently by how often Ted Cruz has been compared to Joe McCarthy in a disparaging way, and almost always these comments are unchallenged.
It’s the same as the ignorance of true RACISM practiced by the Democrats...
Not to mention more contemporaneous accounts, such as Buckley and Bozell's McCarthy and His Enemies and Roy Cohn's book about McCarthy.
When I was in high school, I had fun with one of my lefty teachers. He said that the next class would deal with McCarthy. So I got my parents' copies of Buckley and Bozell's book, Cohn's book, and one other. I also got a copy of Richard Rovere's hatchet job on Fighting Joe and stuffed it inside the desk.
When the teacher started spreading the usual misinformation (or was it disinformation?) about Sen. McCarthy, I would raise my hand and cite one of the books on my desk for the contemporaneous (and more accurate) information.
Finally, he came over, looked at my stack of books, and pronounced loudly in a triumphal tone, "I knew it! I knew you wouldn't have Rovere's book."
At that point, I pulled it out of the desk, held it high, and asked, "You don't mean this, do you?"