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Preface and Acknowledgments vii 1. VIDEO RISING 1 A Television Genealogy 3 Red and Other Menaces 6 McCarthy: Man, Ism, and Television 13 2. THE GESTALT OF THE BLACKLIST 19 The Blacklist Backstory 20 Pressure Groups and Pressure Points 24 Institutional Practices 34 3. CONTROVERSIAL PERSONALITIES 37 The Goldbergs: The Case of Philip Loeb 37 I Love Lucy: The Redhead and the Blacklist 49 4. HYPERSENSITIVITY: THE CODES OF TELEVISION CENSORSHIP 60 Faye Emerson's Breasts, Among Other Controversies 64 Amos 'n'Andy: Blacks in Your Living Room 70 5. FORUMS OF THE AIR 81 Egghead Sundays 83 Direct Address 90 The Ike-onoscope 96 6. ROMAN CIRCUSES AND SPANISH INQUISITIONS 105 "Kefauver Fever": The Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings of 1951 107 HUAC-TV 116 Wringing the Neck of Reed Harris: The McCarthy Committee's Voice of America Hearings (1953) 126 7. COUNTRY AND GOD 134 ILed3 Lives: "Watch Yourself, Philbrick!" 140 Religious Broadcasting 149 Life Is Worth Living: Starring Bishop Fulton J. Sheen 153 8. EDWARD R. MURROW SLAYS THE DRAGON OF JOSEPH MCCARTHY 161 TV's Number One Glamour Boy 163 Murrow Versus McCarthy 168 The "Good Tuesday" Homily 172 To Be Person-to-Personed 177 "A Humble, Poverty Stricken Negress": Annie Lee Moss Before the McCarthy Committee 180 McCarthy Gets Equal Time 184 9. THE ARMY-MCCARTHY HEARINGS (APRIL 22-JUNE 17, 1954) 189 Backstory and Dramatis Personae 190 Gavel-to-Gavel Coverage 195 Climax: "Have You Left No Sense of Decency?" 204 Denouement: Reviews and Postmortems 210 10. PIXIES: HOMOSEXUALITY, ANTICOMMUNISM, AND TELEVISION 215 Red Fades to Pink 219 Airing the Cohn-Schine Affair 224 11. THE END OF THE BLACKLIST 231 The Defenders: The Blacklist on Trial 240 Point of Order!: The Army-McCarthy Hearings, the Movie 244 12. EXHUMING MCCARTHYISM: THE PARANOID STYLE IN AMERICAN TELEVISION 249 Notes 261 Index 293Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Television and politics United States History, Television broadcasting of news United States History, McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957, Anti-communist movements United States History, United States Politics and government 1945-1953, United States Politics and government 1953-1961, United States Social life and customs 1945-1970, Cold War Social aspects United States