CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- 1. OVERVIEW: Big Issues Mirrored in Little Events -- 2. A STUDY: "America's Single Most Important Domestic Problem" -- 3. THE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS: An Upper Midwest Variation -- 4. THE UNIVERSITY: Professorial Dignity and Student Ribaldry -- 5. THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE: The Political Response -- 6. THE IRRESPONSIBLE PRESS: A Deeper Problem -- 7. THE LAW OF LIBEL: A Right Decision and Dangerous Dicta -- 8. THE TRIAL, I: The Defense Becomes a Prosecution -- 9. THE TRIAL, II: The Defense Defeats Itself -- 10. THE TRIAL, III: The Jury Renders Judgment -- EPILOGUE: Lessons from a Lawsuit -- APPENDIXES -- I. Documents Written by Gerda Koch and Introduced as Plaintiff's Exhibits -- II. Bills Introduced into the Minnesota State Legislature on Which Rose Was Co-Author -- III. Letter Sent by the Faculty Legal Protection Committee -- IV. Paul B. Hurley Letter and Interrogatories -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.