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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Age of McCarthyism | |
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| The American Communist Party | |
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| The Growth of the Anti-Communist Network | |
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| Communism and National Security: The Menace Emerges | |
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| The State Steps In: Setting the Anti-Communist Agenda | |
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| Communists in Government and the Big Spy Cases | |
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| Atomic Espionage | |
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| The Loyalty-Security Program | |
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| The Assault on the Communist Party | |
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| The Destruction of the Communist Fronts and Unions | |
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| Congressional Committees and Unfriendly Witnesses | |
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| Red-Baiting and Careerism: Joseph McCarthy at Work | |
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| Congressional Investigations and the "Loss" of China | |
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| Anticommunism at the State and Local Levels | |
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| Blacklists and Other Economic Sanctions | |
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| Liberals and the Struggle against McCarthyism | |
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| The Legacy of McCarthyism | |
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| The Documents | |
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| The World of American Communism: Party Members Talk about Their Experiences | |
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| Howard Johnson, A Communist in Harlem, November 16, 1979 | |
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| David Friedman, A New York City Schoolteacher in the Party, October 23, 1979 | |
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| Marge Frantz, A Longtime Woman Activist in the Party, August 22, 1981 | |
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| Rose Krysak, A Rank-and-File Communist in the 1950s, October 31, 1979 | |
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| From the Communist Party's Perspective: William Z. Foster Looks at the World in 1947 | |
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| William Z. Foster, The New Europe, 1947 | |
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| The Communist Menace: An American Legion View | |
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| James F. O'Neil, How You Can Fight Communism, August 1948 | |
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| To Quarantine Communism: J. Edgar Hoover Speaks to the American People | |
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| J. Edgar Hoover, Testimony before HUAC, March 26, 1947 | |
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| Communist Spies in the State Department: The Emergence of the Hiss Case | |
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| Washington KGB, Telegram to Moscow, March 30, 1945 | |
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| Whittaker Chambers, Testimony before HUAC, August 3, 1948 | |
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| Alger Hiss, Testimony before HUAC, August 5, 1948 | |
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| Whittaker Chambers, Testimony before HUAC, August 7, 1948 | |
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| Alger Hiss, Testimony before HUAC, August 16, 1948 | |
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| Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, Testimony before HUAC, August 17, 1948 | |
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| Whittaker Chambers, Statement to the FBI, December 3, 1948 | |
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| Atomic Espionage and the Rosenberg Case | |
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| Klaus Fuchs, Confession to William Skardon, January 27, 1950 | |
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| New York KGB, Telegram to Moscow, November 12, 1944 | |
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| New York KGB, Telegram to Moscow, November 14, 1944 | |
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| New York KGB, Telegram to Moscow, November 27, 1944 | |
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| A. H. Belmont, Office Memorandum on Julius Rosenberg, July 17, 1950 | |
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| J. Edgar Hoover, Memorandum to the Attorney General, July 19, 1950 | |
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| Judge Irving Kaufman, Sentencing of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, April 5, 1951 | |
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| Ethel Rosenberg, Letter to Julius Rosenberg, February 26, 1952 | |
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| Julius Rosenberg, Letter to Ethel Rosenberg, May 31, 1953 | |
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| The Truman Administration Deals with the Communist Menace: The 1947 Loyalty-Security Program | |
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| Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9835, March 21, 1947 | |
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| A Political Test for Employment: The Loyalty-Security Program in Operation | |
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| The Federal Loyalty-Security Program: Case 1 | |
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| The Federal Loyalty-Security Program: Case 2 | |
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| Guilt by Designation: The Attorney General's List | |
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| The Attorney General's List of Totalitarian, Fascist, Communist, Subversive, and Other Organizations, November 16, 1950 | |
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| Communism in Court: Excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party's Eleven Top Leaders | |
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| John F. X. McGohey, Opening Statement on Behalf of the Government, March 21, 1949 | |
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| Eugene Dennis, Opening Statement on Behalf of the Communist Party, March 21, 1949 | |
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| Louis Budenz, Testimony, March 1949 | |
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| Outlawing the Communist Party: The Supreme Court Upholds the Smith Act | |
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| Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Majority Opinion in Dennis et al. v. United States, June 4, 1951 | |
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| Justice Hugo Black, Dissenting Opinion in Dennis et al. v. United States, June 4, 1951 | |
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| A Liberal Opposes Anti-Communist Legislation: Truman Vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950 | |
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| Harry S. Truman, Veto of the Internal Security Act of 1950, September 22, 1950 | |
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| Purging the Labor Movement: The CIO Expels Its Left-Wing Unions | |
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| Resolution on Expulsion of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, November 1949 | |
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| The Dilemma of an Unfriendly Witness: Lillian Hellman Takes the Fifth Amendment | |
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| Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC, May 19, 1952 | |
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| "Are You Now ...?": HUAC Investigates Hollywood | |
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| John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC, October 27, 1947 | |
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| Ring Lardner Jr., Testimony before HUAC, October 30, 1947 | |
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| "I Have in My Hand...": Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges That There Are Communists in the State Department | |
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| Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, February 9, 1950 | |
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| The Hollywood Blacklist Begins: Studio Heads Fire the Hollywood Ten | |
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| The Waldorf Statement, December 3, 1947 | |
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| The Blacklisters' Bible: Red Channels | |
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| Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television, 1950 | |
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| The Blacklist in Operation: Testimony from the John Henry Faulk Trial | |
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| David Susskind, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 | |
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| Mark Goodson, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 | |
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| Kim Hunter, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 | |
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| Everett Sloan, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 | |
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| Unfriendly Witnesses and Their Lawyers: The HUAC Testimony of Robert Treuhaft | |
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| Robert Treuhaft, Testimony before HUAC, December 3, 1953 | |
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| Heresy and Conspiracy: A Cold War Liberal View of the Communist Threat | |
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| Sidney Hook, Heresy, Yes--But Conspiracy, No, July 9, 1950 | |
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| A Liberal Deplores the Witch-Hunt: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas on "The Black Silence of Fear" | |
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| William O. Douglas, The Black Silence of Fear, January 13, 1952 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Glossary | |
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| A McCarthyism Chronology (1917-1976) | |
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| Interpreting McCarthyism: A Bibliographical Essay | |
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| Index | |