Introduction : Secret agents / Rebecca L. Walkowitz
Part I. Secrets
Jell-O / Marjorie Garber
The Rosenbergs and the crimes of a century / Blanche Wiesen Cook
TV, the bomb, and the body : Other cold war secrets / Joyce Nelson
The secret about secrets / Stanley Goldberg
Censorship of American uranium mine epidemiology in the 1950s / Robert N. Proctor
The trial of J. Edgar Hoover / Thomas L. Dumm
Strange angel : The pinklisting of Roy Cohn / Michael Cadden
Flash back, flash forward : The fifties, the nineties, and the transformed politics of remote control / Alice Jardine
Part II. Agents
Before the Rosenbergs : Espionage scenarios in the early cold war / Ellen Schrecker
Helplessness and heartlessness : Irving Howe, James Bond, and the Rosenbergs / Bruce Robbins
The Rosenberg case and the New York intellectuals / David Suchoff
The Rosenberg letters / David Thorburn
The suffering body : Ethel Rosenberg in the hands of the writers / Carol Hurd Green
A bond of sisterhood : Ethel Rosenberg, Molly Goldberg, and radical Jewish women of the 1950s / Joyce Antler
The bell jar and the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg / Marie Ashe
Part III. Testimonies
Rosenberg realities / Robert Meeropol
Some remarks about trials / David Kennedy
Jews and McCarthyism : A view from the Bronx / Morton J. Horwitz
Contrasting fates of repression : A comment on Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Committee / Randall Kennedy
Arbitrary convictions? The Rosenberg case, the death penalty, and democratic culture / Karl E. Klare
The work of the state / Andrew Ross.