pt. 1. An age of innocents Hiss, Chambers, and the age of innocence -- Afterthoughts on the Rosenbergs -- McCarthy and the intellectuals -- pt. 2. Innocence abroad Italian pilgrimage: the discovery of America -- The "good American" -- Roman holiday -- Looking backward: America from Europe -- pt. 3. The end of innocence Montana; or The end of Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Come back to the raft ag'in, Huck honey! -- Images of Walt Whitman -- Some notes on F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Dead-end Werther: the bum as American culture hero -- Adolescence and maturity in the American novel
