Acknowledgments
Introduction: From God's Mouth to Your Ear
Prologue: Mission for Hollywood-Stalingrad to V-J Day
I. Aliens Among Us: Hollywood, 1946-47
MGM's Manhattan Project: The Beginning or the End?
When HUAC Came to Hollywood …
Showtime ("Hooray for Robert Taylor!")
Decision at the Waldorf: The Big Mop-up
II. Fighting for the Ministry of Truth, Justice, and the American Way,
1948-50
The Iron Curtain Parts and the Campaign Begins
Fort Apache, Our Home
Hollywood Alert: From Red Menace to Storm Warning
"The Saucers Are Real!" (And Guilty of Treason)
Sunset/Panic/In a Lonely Place
Countdown
III. Redskin Menace from Outer Space: America at War, 1950-52
Across Rio Grande … into Manchuria?
This Is Korea?
The Communist Was a Thing for the FBI!
Three Cases: Joseph L., Carl F., and Elia Kazan
Campaign '52: Take Us to Our Leader, Big Jim
High Noon in the Universe
IV. The PaxAmericanArama: Eisenhower Power, 1953-55
"No One on This Earth Can Help You": Above and Beyond and Fantasies of
Invasion
The Hammer, the Witch Trials, and Pickup on South Street
After Quo Vadis: Onward Christian Soldier, Watch Out for The Wild One
Marilyn Ascends, Joe Goes Down
Sh-Boom Them! (DeMillennium Approaching …)
V. Searchin': America on the Road, 1955-56
Coonskin Kids, or the Martians Have Landed
On the Brink of the Wild Frontier: Kiss Me Deadly, Rebel Without a Cause
Better Red Than Dead: Body-Snatched Prisoners of Comanche Mind Control
"That'll Be the Day!" The Spirit of '56
Epilogue: The Face of the Crowd
Sources
Index