Revel with a Cause

Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Liberal Satire in Postwar America
 
Part One: The Positive Uses of Humor
1  Bill Mauldin and the Politics of Postwar American Satire
2  “We Shall Meet the Enemy”: Herbert Block, Robert Osborn, Walt Kelly, and Liberal Cartoonists’ “Weapon of Wit”
 
Part Two: The Cleansing Lash of Laughter
3  Comic Revenge: Parodic Revelry and “Sick” Humor in the 1950s Satiric Underground
4  “Truth Grinning in a Solemn, Canting World”: Liberal Satire’s Masculine, “Sociologically Oriented and Psychically Adjusted” Critique
5  Spontaneous Irony: The Second City, the Premise, and Early Sixties Satiric Cabaret and Revue
 
Part Three: The Politics of Laughter
6  “We Hope You Like Us, Jack”: Liberal Political Satire, 1958–63
7  “Are There Any Groups Here I Haven’t Offended Yet?”: Liberal Satire Takes a Stand
8  “Well-Aimed Ridicule”: Satirizing American Race Relations
9  Mocking Dr. Strangelove; or, How American Satirists Flayed the Cold War, the Bomb, and American Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia
 
Part Four: The Limits of Irreverence
10  “Sophisticated Daring” and Political Cowardice: Television Satire and NBC’s That Was the Week That Was
11  Satire That Would “Gag a Goat”: Crossing the Line with Paul Krassner and Lenny Bruce

Conclusion       Liberal Satire’s Last Laughs
 
Notes
Selected Discography and Bibliography
Index