Foreword by Mike Davis Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 COLORADO The Collapse Chapter 2 INFINITE REVOLT Life at the Times H. L. Mencken Law & Literature George Sterling Provincial Life Mary Austin Making the Scene in Los Angeles Dorothy Hedrick The Bierce Biography Chapter 3 THE POLITICAL TURN The Seeds of Activism The Great Depression Louis Adamic & Shadow- America The "Anti-Fascist Phase" Labor Organizing Factories in the Field Chapter 4 PUBLIC SERVICE The Writer as Bureaucrat Prelude to an Inquisition The War and Japanese Internment Brothers Under the Skin Sleepy Lagoon The Zoot Suit Riots The Tenney Committee Once More the Japanese Evacuation Chapter 5 THE GREAT EXCEPTION An Island on the Land The Campaign Continues Brothers Under the Skin --The Sequels The California Culmination A Savage and Depressing Year Witch Hunt Surveillance & Its Discontents Chapter 6 THE VILE DECADE The Nation at War Leaving Los Angeles The Cold War Casualties Defending Civil Liberties The Fall of McCarthy Carey McWilliams, Editor Civil Rights Redux Curtain Calls in California Chapter 7 THE AGE OF NIXON Watching the Republicans The New Generation Back at the Ranch Before the Revolution The New Left Vietnam The New Nixon Living in the Ruins Summing Up Chapter 8 MOVING ON After the Nation The Reluctant Hero Illness The Education of Carey McWilliams Back in California Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.