Foreword Preface List of Illustrations PART ONE Introduction: 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 PART TWO The Documents 1. From the Communist Party''s Perspective: William Z. Foster Looks at the World in 1947 1. William Z. Foster, The New Europe , 1947 2. The Anti-Communist Perspective: An American Legion View 2. James F. O''Neil, How You Can Fight Communism , August 1948 3.
Quarantining Communism: J. Edgar Hoover Speaks to the American People 3. J. Edgar Hoover, Testimony before HUAC , March 26, 1947 4. Communist Spies in the State Department: The Emergence of the Hiss Case 4. Washington KGB, Telegram to Moscow , March 30, 1945 5. Washington KGB, Telegram to Moscow , March 5, 1945 6. Whittaker Chambers, Testimony before HUAC , August 3, 1948 7.
Alger Hiss, Testimony before HUAC , August 5, 1948 8. Whittaker Chambers, Testimony before HUAC , August 7, 1948 9. Alger Hiss, Testimony before HUAC , August 16, 1948 10. Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, Testimony before HUAC , August 17, 1948 11. Whittaker Chambers at, the HUAC hearing, August 25, 1948 12. Whittaker Chambers, Statement to the FBI , December 3, 1948 13. The Pumpkin Papers, December 1948 5. Atomic Espionage and the Rosenberg Case 14.
Klaus Fuchs, Confession to William Skardon , January 27, 1950 15. A. H. Belmont, Office Memorandum on Julius Rosenberg , July 17, 1950 16. J. Edgar Hoover, Memorandum to the Attorney General , July 19, 1950 17. Judge Irving Kaufman, Sentencing of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg , April 5, 1951 18. David Greenglass, Grand Jury testimony , August 7, 1950 19.
Ethel Rosenberg, Letter to Julius Rosenberg , February 26, 1952 20. Julius Rosenberg, Letter to Ethel Rosenberg , May 31, 1953 21. Love in a Cold War Climate , August 23, 1950 6. The Truman Administration Deals with the Communist Menace: The 1947 Loyalty-Security Program 22. Harry S. Truman, Executive Order 9835 , March 21, 1947 7. A Political Test for Employment: The Loyalty-Security Program in Operation 23. The Federal Loyalty-Security Program: Case 1 24.
The Federal Loyalty-Security Program: Case 2 8. Purging the Labor Movement: The CIO Expels Its Left-Wing Unions 25. Resolution on Expulsion of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America , November 1949 9. Communism in Court: Excerpts from the 1949 Smith Act Trial of the Communist Party''s Eleven Top Leaders 26. John F. X. McGohey, Opening Statement on Behalf of the Government , March 21, 1949 27. Eugene Dennis, Opening Statement on Behalf of the Communist Party , March 21, 1949 28.
Louis Budenz, Testimony , March 1949 10. Outlawing the Communist Party: The Supreme Court Upholds the Smith Act 29. Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Majority Opinion in Dennis et al. v. United States, June 4, 1951 30. Justice Hugo Black, Dissenting Opinion in Dennis et al. v. United States, June 4, 1951 11.
A Liberal Opposes Anti-Communist Legislation: Truman Vetoes the Internal Security Act of 1950 31. Harry S. Truman, Veto of the Internal Security Act of 1950 , September 22, 1950 12. I Have in My Hand .: Senator Joseph McCarthy Charges That There Are Communists in the State Department 32. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia , February 9, 1950 13. McCarthy''s Congressional Critics: A Republican 33. Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Speech in Congress , June 1, 1950 14.
McCarthy''s Congressional Critics: A Democrat 34. Millard Tydings, Statement in the Senate , July 20, 1950 15. McCarthy''s Demise 35. Herblock, I Have Here in My Hand -- , May 7, 1954 16. Taking the Fifth: The Dilemma of Lillian Hellman 36. Lillian Hellman, Letter to HUAC , May 19, 1952 17. An Unfriendly Witness: Paul Robeson defies HUAC 37. Paul Robeson, Testimony before HUAC , June 12, 1956 18.
Robeson Escapes McCarthyism 38. Robeson Departs the United States, July 10, 1958 19. Are You Now . ?: HUAC Investigates Hollywood 39. John Howard Lawson, Testimony before HUAC , October 27, 1947 40. Ring Lardner Jr., Testimony before HUAC , October 30, 1947 41. Free the Hollywood 10 20.
The Hollywood Blacklist Begins: Studio Heads Fire the Hollywood Ten 42. The Waldorf Statement , December 3, 1947 21 The Blacklisters'' Bible: Red Channels 43. Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television , 1950 22. The Blacklist in Operation: Testimony from the John Henry Faulk Trial 44. David Susskind, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 45. Mark Goodson, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 46.
Kim Hunter, Testimony in Faulk v. AWARE, 1962 23. Unfriendly Witnesses and Their Lawyers: The HUAC Testimony of Robert Treuhaft 47. Robert Treuhaft, Testimony before HUAC , December 3, 1953 APPENDIXES Glossary A Chronology of McCarthyism (1917-1962) Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index.