Dangerous dossiers: exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors

The right of privacy

Policing America's writers: Agent "T-10" ; The professionals ; In the web : E.B. White ; Half-freedom files

The Nobel laureates: Sinclair Lewis ; Pearl S. Buck ; William Faulkner ; Ernest Hemingway ; John Steinbeck ; Thomas Mann

Revered authors: Carl Sandburg ; Theodore Dreiser ; John Dos Passos ; Thomas Wolfe ; Dorothy Parker ; John O'Hara

Sleuthing the storytellers: Nelson Algren ; Dashiell Hammett ; Irwin Shaw ; Truman Capote ; A.J. Liebling

Troublemaking playwrights: Thornton Wilder ; Robert Sherwood ; Elmer Rice ; Maxwell Anderson ; William Saroyan ; Lillian Hellman ; Tennessee Williams

Poets and essayists: Archibald MacLeish ; Robert Lowell ; Robert Frost ; W.H. Auden ; H.L. Mencken ; Edmund Wilson

Foreign authors: Stephen Spender ; Graham Greene ; Hannah Arendt ; Aldous Huxley ; Ignazio Silone

Alfred A. Knopf, Publisher

Seeing red : Rex Stout: The League's stand ; Rex Stout, "alleged radical"

Infiltrating the guilds: Spying on meetings ; The Radio Writers Guild ; A wild-goose chase

Among those present ... : John Kenneth Galbraith ; William H. (Bill) Mauldin ; Norman Mailer ; Allen Ginsberg

Watching artists: Alexander Calder ; Ben Shahn ; Georgia O'Keeffe ; Henry Moore

Rules of the game: Weakening the guidelines ; Expunging records ; Professor Kimball vindicated

Freedom to create: An alien state.