CONTENTS Cover Page Title Page Dedication PART I. THIRD RAIL PROLOGUE The Search for Joe McCarthy CHAPTER 1 An Enemy of the People CHAPTER 2 The Caveman in the Sewer CHAPTER 3 He Had in His Hand CHAPTER 4 “Stale, Warmed Over Charges” CHAPTER 5 Unthinking the Thinkable PART II. BACK STORY CHAPTER 6 The Witching Hour CHAPTER 7 The Way It Worked CHAPTER 8 Chungking, 1944 CHAPTER 9 Reds, Lies, and Audiotape CHAPTER 10 When Parallels Converged CHAPTER 11 What Hoover Told Truman CHAPTER 12 Inside the State Department CHAPTER 13 Acts of Congress PART III. BLOWUP CHAPTER 14 Wheeling, 1950 CHAPTER 15 Discourse on Method CHAPTER 16 The Tydings Version CHAPTER 17 Eve of Destruction CHAPTER 18 A Fraud and a Hoax CHAPTER 19 Of Names and Numbers CHAPTER 20 The Four Committees CHAPTER 21 File and Forget It CHAPTER 22 All Clear in Foggy Bottom CHAPTER 23 The Man Who Knew Too Much PART IV. MOLE HUNTS CHAPTER 24 The Trouble with Harry CHAPTER 25 A Book of Martyrs CHAPTER 26 Some Public Cases CHAPTER 27 Tempest in a Teacup CHAPTER 28 Little Red Schoolhouse CHAPTER 29 “Owen Lattimore—Espionage R” CHAPTER 30 Dr. Jessup and Mr. Field CHAPTER 31 A Conspiracy So Immense CHAPTER 32 The Battle with Benton PART V. HARDBALL CHAPTER 33 The Perils of Power CHAPTER 34 Uncertain Voice CHAPTER 35 The Burning of the Books CHAPTER 36 Scott McLeod, Where Are You? CHAPTER 37 The Getting of J. B. Matthews CHAPTER 38 The Moles of Monmouth CHAPTER 39 A Tale of Two Generals CHAPTER 40 The Legend of Annie Lee Moss CHAPTER 41 At War with the Army CHAPTER 42 On Not Having Any Decency PART VI. END GAME CHAPTER 43 The Sounds of Silence CHAPTER 44 Sentence First, Verdict Later CONCLUSION Samson in the Heathen Temple Notes Appendix Acknowledgments About the Author Copyright For my mother JOSEPHINE STANTON EVANS who knew it all along and for TIERNEY MCCARTHY