Note to the reader
Introduction
The 1800s: protest.censorship.control.
Down with the movies
Radio, protest, and scandal
Nazis, racists, and World War Two
TV: immoral and filthy and possibly racist
The Civil Rights Movement and the John Birch Society
Rock 'n' roll and juvenile delinquency
We shall overcome (blackface)
Dirty movies and drug music
Women's lib and gay lib and the Frito Bandito
Extremists versus comedy
Paul Weyrich: culture warrior
Punk rock, Frank Zappa, ad the PMRC
Eddie Murphy, Sam Kinison, Andrew Dice Clay, and their haters
Shock jocks, talk radio, and the fairness doctrine
Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and rap music
To have a cow
Endless culture wars
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.