TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1 THE CONTEMPORARY SCENE; 2 AMERICAN RADICALS; 3 THE FIRE BEHIND THE SMOKE; 4 THE ROAD THAT LEADS; 5 BOMBS, RIOTS, AND MORE BOMBS; 6 THE PATRIOTIC DEFENSE; 7 LABOR AND BOLSHEVISM; 8 WHEN POLICEMEN STRIKE; 9 BIG STEEL-GRAY OR PINK?; 10 COAL-BLACK OR RED?; 11 THE GAG AND THE MOB; 12 THE QUAKER AND THE ARK; 13 THE JANUARY RAIDS; 14 RACE BETWEEN GOVERNMENTS; 15 EBBING TIDE; 16 PEBBLES ON THE BEACH; NOTE ON SOURCES; FOOTNOTES; INDEX
Summary
Few periods n American history have been so dramatic, so fraught with mystery, or so bristling with fear and hysteria as were the days of the great Red Scare that followed World War I. For sheer excitement, it would be difficult to find a more absorbing t