Outrageous: a history of showbiz and the culture wars

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.