Includes bibliographical references and index.

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