Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Definitions.
Chapter 2. Intimations of Things to Come
1.: The Sin of Advocacy
2.: HUAC Gets Under Way
3.: J. Edgar Hoover Alerts the Nation
4.: The Right to Wiretap
5.: Un-Americanism in California
Chapter 3. McCarthyism in Earnest
1.: Defining Loyalty
2.: Two Case Studies
a. O. Edmund Clubb
b. "Case Number 16"
3.: Cleaning out the Unions
4.: The Ordeal of John Howard Lawson
5.: In Defense of the Hollywood Ten
6.: Hollywood's Response
7.: Trying the Communists
Chapter 4. Liberal Response and Counter-Response
1.: Liberal Idealism: Contra Loyalty Reviews
2.: Liberal Realism: Pro-Loyalty Reviews
3.: In Defense of Liberal Anti-Communism
4.: A Communist Advises Anti-Communist Liberals
5.: Throwing the Communists Out of the CIO
6.: Liberal Anti-Communism in Extremis
7.: The Case of the American Civil Liberties Union
Chapter 5. McCarthy the Man: McCarthyism Triumphant
1.: McCarthy Anticipates McCarthyism
2.: Versions of the Wheeling Speech
3.: Mrs. Smith's Declaration of Conscience
4.: Democratic Rebuttal
5.: Total Security: The McCarran Act
6.: McCarthy Unbound
7.: McCarthy's Assault on General Marshall
8.: McCarthy in Full Stride
9.: McCarthy as Hero
Chapter 6. Judicial Acquiescence
1.: The Court Gives the Go-Ahead
2.: Defining the Fifth
3.: Loyalty, Past, Present and Future
4.: Suppression Legalized: Dennis v. United States
5.: New York Leads the Way
Chapter 7. Inquisition Triumphant
1.: Blacklisters at Work: Red Channels:
a. Larry Adler
b. Leonard Bernstein
c. Paul Draper
d. Will Geere
Arthur Miller
2.: The California Loyalty Oath
3.: Reagan versus the Reds
4.: Industry Goes Along
5.: How to Get Off, Or Avoid Gettin on the Blacklist
6.: The Pathos of Larry Parks
7.: Kazan Explains Why
8.: Hellman's Cry of Conscience
9.: "The Rights and Responsibilities of Universities and their Faculties"
10.: Stander Confound HUAC
11.: Dr. Oppenheimer's Disgrace
12.: The Butterfly and the Committee
13.: Paul Robeson Takes on the Committee
Chapter 8. Expulsions and Imprisonments
1.: Adler's Lament
2.: The Fruits of Defiance: Lardner
3.: The Fruits of Defiance: Bessie
4.: Travails of a Communist
5.: Getting Dashiell Hammett Et Al
6.: "Sedition" in Pittsburgh
7.: Harrassing a Labor Radical
Chapter 9. McCarthy's Fall
1.: Assailing Eisenhower
2.: McCarthy and His Nemesis
3.: Defiance to the Bitter End
4.: Condemned!
5.: Liberals Seek Cover: The Communist Control Act
Chapter 10. A Measure of Redress
1.: End of the Lattimore Affaire
2.: Freedom for Steve Nelson
3.: Matusow Confesses
4.: The Fifth Vindicated
5.: The Smith Act Disabled
6.: HUAC's Wing's Clipped
7.: The Right to Travel Abroad Affirmed
8.: Faulk Breaks the Blacklist
Chapter 11. Afterward
1.: COINTELPRO in the Flesh
2.: Breaking and Entering
3.: Tom Huston's Try
4.: J. Edgar Hoover Still Sees Red
Bibliographical Essay

Reviews

Fried's book is a precise historical account of the period of the McCarthy witch-hunts from the late 1940s to the 1960s. The News Line this is a useful collection for any teacher looking to enliven a course on the making of Cold War America. Iwan Morgan, London Guildhall University, American Politics Review, no 37, March 1998