ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 15

PRINCIPAL FEDERAL HERESY TRIBUNALS AND LAWS 17

FIRST AND FIFTH AMENDMENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION 21

PREFACE 23

INTRODUCTION 27

Red Diapers 47

ROBERT MEEROPOL 47GENE DENNIS 54

ROBBIE BRIDGES 58CHRIS TRUMBO 63

BECKY JENKINS 69

The Peekskill Riot 74

IRWIN SILBER 75BOB BLACK 78

Hounds 81

M. WELSEY SWEARINGEN 84HARVEY JOB MATUSOW 97

HERBERT BROWNELL, JR 108ROY BREWER 112

PETER SZLUK 122

The Purge of the Civil Service 127

JERRY AND SYLVIA MANHEIM 131JOSEPH RAUH 137

AL BERNSTEIN 141

A Graveyard of Careers 144

ALGER HISS 146CARL MARZANI 152

JOHN STEWART SERVICE 158JOHN MELBY 165

ANTHONY GEBER 170

Atom Bomb Spies 175

MORTON SOBELL 181HELEN SOBEL 189

STEVE NELSON 195

The Fall of the Communist Party 199

STEVE NELSON 204LORETTA STARVUS 212

DOROTHY HEALEY 219JUNIUS SCALES 226

Five Minutes to Midnight 236

JUNIUS SCALES 239ARCHIE BROWN 241

HON BROWN 243SYLVIA THOMPSON 247

JOE PASSEN 249FAY BLAKE 251

The Hollywood Blacklist 255

RING LARDNER, JR. 260FRANCES CHANEY 266

HOWARD KOCH 272PAUL JARRICO 276

JEFF COREY 284JOHN SANFORD 289

EDWARD DMYTRYK 294DAVID RAKSIN 305

Arts and Entertainment 315

MARK GOODSON 320FRANK TARLOFF 326

KAY BOYLE 331JOSEPH RAUH 338

ARTHUR MILLER 340JOHN RANDOLPH 345

ANGUS CAMERON 352MELVIN BARNET 355

Troubadours of the Left 362

PETE SEEGER 363FRED HELLERMAN 367

RONNIE GILBERT 370

Breaking the Working Class 375

CLINTON JENCKS 380JOE SACHS 390

CLAIRE HARTFORD 395

On the Waterfront 402

BILL BAILEY 405JACK O’DELL 413

Red-ucators 419

Universities 426

LINUS PAULING 426OSCAR SHAFTEL 429

CHANDLER DAVIS 434ROBERT COLODNY 440

M. BREWSTER SMITH 444

Labor Schools 447

DAVE JENKINS 447HERBERT APTHEKER 451

Public Schools 455

RUTH GOLDBERG 455FRANCES EISENBERG 459

JEAN WILKINSON 464

Fighting Jim Crow 469

ANNE BRADEN 472SYLVIA THOMPSON 482

VIRGINIA DURR 487LEE LORCH 489

JACK O’DELL 500

The Peace Movement 507

LINUS PAULING 509EDITH JENINS 515

The Fight Against HUAC 521

RICHARD CRILEY 521FRANK WILKINSON 528

JEAN WILKINSON 537ARCHIE BROWN 540

HON BROWN 543

The Arlington Case 544

SYLVIA THOMPSON 544

SOURCES 549

INDEX 557