PART ONE: THE AGE OF MCCARTHYISM 1 American Communist Party 2 Growth of the Anti-Communist Network 3 Communism and National Security: Menace Emerges 4 State Steps In: Setting the Anticommunist Agenda 5 Communists in Government and the Big Spy Cases 6 Atomic Espionage 7 Loyalty-Security Program 8 Assault on the Communist Party 9 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 Legacy of McCarthyism 17 Interpreting McCarthyism: A Bibliographical Essay PART TWO: DOCUMENTS 1 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 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: Emergence of the Hiss Case 6 Atom Spies or Cold War Martyrs? Rosenberg Case 7 Truman Administration Deals with the Communist Menace: 1947 Loyalty-Security Program E.O.9835 8 A Political Test for Employment: Loyalty Security Program in Operation 9 Guilt by Designation: Attorney General's List 10 Communism in Court: Excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party's Eleven Top Leaders Outlawing the Communist Party: 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: CIO Expels Its Left-wing Unions 14 Dilemma of an Unfriendly Witness: Lillian Hellman Takes the Fifth Amendment 15 You Now ... ?HUAC Investigates Hollywood 16 I Have in My Hand...:Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges That There Are Communists In the State Department 17 Hollywood Blacklist Begins: Studio Heads Fire the Hollywood Ten 18 Blacklisters' Bible: Red Channels 19 Blacklist In Operation: Testimony From the John Henry Faulk Trial of 1962 20 Unfriendly Witnesses and their Lawyers: HUAC Testimony of Robert Treuhaft 21 A Liberal Deplores the Witch-Hunt: Supreme Court Justice William O.Douglas On The Black Silence of Fear.