David Caute. The Great Fear.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE

THE POLITICS OF HYSTERIA

1 – The Truman Doctrine: Pax Americana

2 – The Republican Catharsis

3 – Espionage Fever: Myth of the Vital Secret

4 – The States and Subversion

PART TWO

THE MACHINERY OF REPRESSION

5 – The Congressional Inquisition

6 – The FBI and the Informers

7 – The Constitution Concussed in the Courts

PART THREE

THE ASSAULT ON THE LEFT

8 – Bureaucratic Persecution

9 – The Communist Party Goes Under

10 – Hell in Pittsburgh

11 – The Deportation Terror

12 – The Golden Curtain: Passports and Immigration

PART FOUR

PURGE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE

13 – The Federal Civil Service

14 – The Armed Forces: A Code of Dishonor

15 – The State Department and the China Experts

16 – The UN, Brief Refuge

17 – State and City Employees

PART FIVE

PACIFICATION OF THE WORKING CLASS

18 – How to Break a Union

19 – How to Fire a Worker

20 – United Electrical Workers on the Rack

21 – On the Waterfront

PART SIX

PURGE OF THE PROFESSIONS

22 – Purge of the “Reducators”

23 – New York Teachers on Trial

24 – Newspapermen and Librarians

25 – Science: Sanity or “Security”?

PART SEVEN

SHOW BUSINESS: THE BLACKLISTS

26 – Hollywood

27 – Radio, Television and Theater

Conclusion

Appendix A. Undercover Agents

Appendix B. The Tillett Survey: The Predicament of the Discharged Teacher

Appendix C. The Hollywood Blacklist

Bibliography