Cover -- Half title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Video Rising -- A Television Genealogy -- Red and Other Menaces -- McCarthy: Man, Ism, and Television -- 2. The Gestalt of the Blacklist -- The Blacklist Backstory -- Pressure Groups and Pressure Points -- Institutional Practices -- 3. Controversial Personalities -- The Goldbergs: The Case of Philip Loeb -- I Love Lucy: The Redhead and the Blacklist -- 4. Hypersensitivity: The codes of Television Censorship -- Faye Emerson's Breasts, Among Other Controversies -- Amos 'n' Andy: Blacks in Your Living Room -- 5. Forums of the Air -- Egghead Sundays -- Direct Address -- The Ike-onoscope -- 6. Roman Circuses and Spanish Inquisitions -- "Kefauver Fever": The Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings of 1951 -- HUAC-TV -- Wringing the Neck of Reed Harris: The McCarthy Committee's Voice of America Hearings (1953) -- 7. Country and God -- I Led 3 Lives: "Watch Yourself, Philbrick!" -- Religious Broadcasting -- Life Is Worth Living: Starring Bishop Fulton J. Sheen -- 8. Edward R. Murrow Slays the Dragon of Joseph McCarthy -- TV's Number One Glamour Boy -- Murrow Versus McCarthy -- The "Good Tuesday" Homily -- To Be Person-to-Personed -- "A Humble, Poverty Stricken Negress": Annie Lee Moss Before the McCarthy Committee -- McCarthy Gets Equal Time -- 9. The Army-McCarthy hearings (April 22-June 17, 1954) -- Backstory and Dramatis Personae -- Gavel-to-Gavel Coverage -- Climax: "Have You Left No Sense of Decency?" -- Denouement: Reviews and Postmortems -- 10. Pixies: Homosexuality, Anticommunism, and Television -- Red Fades to Pink -- Airing the Cohn-Schine Affair -- 11. The End of the Blacklist -- The Defenders: The Blacklist on Trial -- Point of Order!: The Army-McCarthy Hearings, the Movie -- 12. Exhuming McCarthyism: The Paranoid Style in American Television.

Notes -- Index.