Table of Contents

PART ONE: THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM 1 The American Communist Party 2 The Growth of the Anti-Communist Network 3 Communism and National Security: The Menace Emerges 4 The State Steps In: Setting the Anticommunist Agenda 5 Communists in Government and the Big Spy Cases 6 Atomic Espionage 7 The Loyalty-Security Program 8 The Assault on the Communist Party 9 The Destruction of the Communist Fronts and Unions 10 Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses 11 Redbaiting and Careerism: Joseph McCarthy at Work 12 Congressional Investigations and the "Loss of China" 13 Anticommunism at the State and Local Levels 14 Blacklists and Other Economic sanctions 15 Liberals and McCarthyism 16 The Legacy of McCarthyism 17 Interpreting McCarthyism: A Bibliographical Essay PART TWO: DOCUMENTS 1 The World of American Communism: Party Members Talk About Their Experiences 2 From the Communist Party's Perspective: William Z.Foster Looks at the World in 1947 3 The Communist Menace: An American Legion View 4 To Quarantine Communism: J.Edgar Hoover Speaks to the American People 5 Communist Spies in the State Department: The Emergence of the Hiss Case 6 Atom Spies or Cold War Martyrs? The Rosenberg Case 7 The Truman Administration Deals with the Communist Menace: The 1947 Loyalty-Security Program;E.O.9835 8 A Political Test for Employment: The Loyalty Security Program in Operation 9 Guilt by Designation: The Attorney General's List 10 Communism in Court: Excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party's Eleven Top Leaders I I Outlawing the Communist Party: The Supreme Court Upholds the Smith Act 12 A Liberal Opposes Anticommunist Legislation: Truman Vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950 13 Purging the Labour Movement: The CIO Expels Its Left-wing Unions 14 The Dilemma of an Unfriendly Witness: Lillian Hellman Takes the Fifth Amendment 15 "Are You Now ... ?"HUAC Investigates Hollywood 16 "I Have in My Hand...":Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges That There Are Communists In the State Department 17 The Hollywood Blacklist Begins: Studio Heads Fire the Hollywood Ten 18 The Blacklisters' Bible: Red Channels 19 The Blacklist In Operation: Testimony From the John Henry Faulk Trial of 1962 20 Unfriendly Witnesses and their Lawyers: The HUAC Testimony of Robert Treuhaft 21 A Liberal Deplores the Witch-Hunt: Supreme Court Justice William O.Douglas On "The Black Silence of Fear".