The age of McCarthyism. The American Communist Party ; The growth of the anti-Communist network ; Communism and national security : the menace emerges ; The state steps in : setting the anti-Communist agenda ; Communists in government and the big spy cases ; Atomic espionage ; The Loyalty-Security Program ; The assault on the Communist Party ; The destruction of the Communist fronts and unions ; Congressional committees and unfriendly witnesses ; Red-baiting and careerism : Joseph McCarthy at work ; Congressional investigations and the "loss" of China ; Anticommunism at the state and local levels ; Blacklists and other economic sanctions ; Liberals and the struggle against McCarthyism ; The legacy of McCarthyism

The documents. The world of American communism : party members talk about their experiences

From the Communist Party's perspective : William Z. Foster looks at the world in 1947

The communist menace : an American Legion view

To quarantine communism : J. Edgar Hoover speaks to the American people

Communist spies in the State Department : the emergence of the Hiss case

Atomic espionage and the Rosenberg case

The Truman administration deals with the Communist menace : the 1947 Loyalty-Security Program

A political test for employment : the Loyalty-Security Program in operation

Guilt by designation : the Attorney General's list

Communism in court : excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party's eleven top leaders

Outlawing the Communist Party : the Supreme Court upholds the Smith Act

A liberal opposes anti-Communist legislation : Truman vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950

Purging the labor movement : the CIO expels its left-wing unions

The dilemma of an unfriendly witness : Lillian Hellman takes the Fifth Amendment

"Are you now

?" : HUAC investigates Hollywood

"I have in my hand

" : Senator Joseph McCarthy charges that there are Communists in the State Department

The Hollywood blacklist begins : studio heads fire the Hollywood Ten

The blacklisters' Bible : Red Channels

The blacklist in operation : testimony from the John Henry Faulk Trial

Unfriendly witnesses and their lawyers : the HUAC testimony of Robert Treuhaft

Heresy and conspiracy : a Cold War liberal view of the Communist threat

A liberal deplores the witch-hunt : Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on "The Black Silence of Fear"

Appendixes. Glossary ; A McCarthyism chronology (1917-1976) ; Interpreting McCarthyism : a bibliographical essay.