Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Background
  • Beginnings : war, phony war, and election, 1939-40
  • Intensification : the lend-lease debate, America First, and its allies, December 1940 to summer 1941
  • Focus : from great debate stalemate to wartime probe, mid-1941 to summer 1942
  • Retribution : the FBI and the Victory Program leak, 4 December 1941 to mid-1942
  • Blossoming of the domestic security state, November 1941 to March 1942
  • Conclusion.