"...pop-culture scholar Michael Barson illustrates and interprets those years of McCarthyism and Red-baiting, taking a satirical look at an era America would like to forget. Delving deep into the archives that time forgot, Barson creates an enlightening, startling, and often hilarious seletion of the day's magazines, editorials, films, advertisements, paperback novels, comic books, television shows, and even bubblegum cards, exemplifying America's xenophobia at its greatest excess" (from cover).