Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. INTRODUCTION. Liberal Satire in Postwar America 1
5. PART ONE. THE POSITIVE USES OF HUMOR 13
6. CHAPTER ONE. Bill Mauldin and the Politics of Postwar American Satire 15
7. CHAPTER TWO. “We Shall Meet the Enemy”: Herbert Block, Robert Osborn, Walt Kelly, and Liberal Cartoonists’ “Weapon of Wit” 33
8. PART TWO. THE CLEANSING LASH OF LAUGHTER
9. CHAPTER THREE. Comic Revenge: Parodic Revelry and “Sick” Humor in the 1950s Satiric Underground 77
10. CHAPTER FOUR. “Truth Grinning in a Solemn, Canting World”: Liberal Satire’s Masculine, “Sociologically Oriented and Psychically Adjusted” Critique 119
11. CHAPTER FIVE. Spontaneous Irony: The Second City, the Premise, and Early Sixties Satiric Cabaret and Revue 161
12. PART THREE. THE POLITICS OF LAUGHTER
13. CHAPTER SIX. “We Hope You Like Us, Jack”: Liberal Political Satire, 1958–63 193
14. CHAPTER SEVEN. “Are There Any Groups Here I Haven’t Offended Yet?”: Liberal Satire Takes a Stand 239
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. “Well-Aimed Ridicule”: Satirizing American Race Relations 269
16. CHAPTER NINE. Mocking Dr. Strangelove; or, How American Satirists Flayed the Cold War, the Bomb, and American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia 299
17. PART FOUR. THE LIMITS OF IRREVERENCE
18. CHAPTER TEN. “Sophisticated Daring” and Political Cowardice: Television Satire and NBC’s That Was the Week That Was 345
19. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Satire That Would “Gag a Goat”: Crossing the Line with Paul Krassner and Lenny Bruce 389
20. Conclusion: Liberal Satire’s Last Laughs 425
21. Notes 447
22. Bibliography 543
23. Index 555