Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. Preface xi
4. A Note on References xvii
5. CHAPTER 1 A Running Start at the Cold War: Time, Place, and Outcomes 1
6. CHAPTER 2 Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, and University of Washington Regents: A Message Sent 34
7. CHAPTER 3 Syncopated Incompetence: The American Anthropological Association’s Reluctance to Protect Academic Freedom 50
8. CHAPTER 4 Hoover’s Informer 70
9. CHAPTER 5 Lessons Learned: Jacobs’s Fallout and Swadesh’s Troubles 90
10. CHAPTER 6 Public Show Trials: Gene Weltfish and a Conspiracy of Silence 109
11. CHAPTER 7 Bernhard Stern: ‘‘A Sense of Atrophy among Those Who Fear’’ 136
12. CHAPTER 8 Persecuting Equality: The Travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson 154
13. CHAPTER 9 Examining the FBI’s Means and Methods 169
14. CHAPTER 10 Known Shades of Red: Marxist Anthropologists Who Escaped Public Show Trials 195
15. CHAPTER 11 Red Diaper Babies, Suspect Agnates, Cognates, and Affines 225
16. CHAPTER 12 Culture, Equality, Poverty, and Paranoia: The FBI, Oscar Lewis, and Margaret Mead 237
17. CHAPTER 13 Crusading Liberals Advocating for Racial Justice: Philleo Nash and Ashley Montagu 263
18. CHAPTER 14 The Suspicions of Internationalists 284
19. CHAPTER 15 A Glimpse of Post-McCarthyism: FBI Surveillance and Consequences for Activism 306
20. CHAPTER 16 Through a Fog Darkly: The Cold War’s Impact on Free Inquiry 341
21. APPENDIX On Using the Freedom of Information Act 355
22. Notes 363
23. Bibliography 383
24. Index 405