Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious Minds
Chapter 2. Seeing Red: The Stigma
Chapter 3. Assenting: The Trend of Ideology
Chapter 4. Praying: God Bless America
Chapter 5. Informing: Many Are Called
Chapter 6. Reeling: The Politics of Film
Chapter 7. Boxed-In: Television and the Press
Chapter 8. Dissenting: Pity the Land
Chapter 9. Thawing: A Substitute for Victory
Epilogue
Bibliographical Essay
Index

About the Author

Stephen J. Whitfield is Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University. He is the author of A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till and A Critical American: The Politics of Dwight Macdonald

Reviews

A lively and well-documented account of how the Cold War both produced and was sustained by super-patriotism, intolerance and suspicion, and how these pathologies infected all aspects of American life in the 1950s-entertainment, churches, schools. Older readers will remember and still be amazed; younger ones will find this a readable introduction to a bizarre aspect of the American past. Foreign Affairs, reviewing the first edition