Part 1. McCarthy's anti-communist crusade, 1950-54 -- McCarthy and the State Department -- At storm center, 1950-1952 -- McCarthy takes on Eisenhower -- Downfall of a Senator -- Part 2. McCarthy appraised -- "He was in some meaningful sense aberrant" / Richad Rovere -- "He was right in essentials" / Roy Cohn -- "I automatically think of Hitler" / Arthur Eisenhower -- "No idea, no cause, no program, nothing" / Will Herberg -- "He had seen the truth - and it killed him" / William S. Schlamm -- Part 3. Who were the McCarthyites? -- McCarthyism as isolationism / Nathan Glazer -- McCarthyism and the Parvenus / Huberman and Sweezy -- McCarthy and ressentiment / Peter Viereck -- McCarthyism as a Republican phenomenon / Nelson Polsby -- McCarthyism and the ethnic factor / Seymour Martin Lipset -- McCarthyism not a mass movement / Michael Paul Rogin.