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

• 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