American Experiment (455 page)

American Writers’ Congress,
53

American Youth Congress,
53

Anderson, Marian,
113

anomie
,
275
,
285
,
600

Anthony, Susan K.,
452

antiballistic missiles,
478
,
479

anticommunism,
230-2
,
242-6
,
282-3

in Congress,
230
,
231-2
,
233
,
258-9

of Dulles under Eisenhower,
254

McCarthy,
244-6
,
251-3
,
258

of Nixon,
230
,
232
,
244
,
418
,
468
,
480

of Reagan,
607
,
642-4

in Truman Administration,
228-34
,
238
,
239
,
243
,
245

as unifier of conservative factions,
629

anti-nuclear movement,
391-2
,
544
,
546

churches involved in,
537-8

anti-Semitism,
45
,
85
,
218-19
,
353

in Congress,
169
,
219

anti-trust policies,
32
,
214
,
215
,
563

anti-Vietnam War movement,
401
,
407-10
,
412-13
,
418
,
420-6
,
431
,
460-1
,
536-7
,
623

Apollo, Project,
581-2
,
584-5

Appalachia, poverty in,
316

appeasement,
497

charged by anti-arms-control hawks,
333

LBJ’s fear in case of Vietnam,
401-2

Munich 1938,
158
,
159

Appel, John,
308

Aptheker, Bellina,
395-6

Arab nations,
486-7
,
525
,
527
,
558

oil,
255
,
641
,
644
; embargo (1973),
574

Arendt, Hannah,
593

Argentina,
328
,
329

arms:

exports,
155-6
; to Middle East,
487
; prewar embargo on,
158-9
,
160

technology,
268

World War II production,
182-4

see also
nuclear weapons

arms control,
333
,
476-9
,
488
,
586

ABM Treaty (1972),
479

Eisenhower and,
256-7

Kennedy Test Ban Treaty (1963),
390
,
392

SALT: I,
477-9
; II,
523
,
528-9
,
645

arms race,
264
,
333
,
335
,
396
,
478
,
527
,
538
,
552
,
586-7

US superiority,
259
,
264
,
265
,
333-4
,
335

Armstrong, Neil,
581-2

Arnold, Gen. Henry “Hap,”
196

Aron, Raymond,
277

Arthur, Chester A.,
625

art, artists,
138-9
,
296
,
615
,
620-4
,
664-5

New Deal programs for,
132-5
,
138

New York School of,
621
,
664

and red-baiting,
132
,
134
,
138
,
231

Artists’ and Writers’ Union,
134

Ashmore, Harry S.,
353
,
355

Asia,
303
,
304
,
337-8

colonialism in,
338-9
,
341-2

communism in,
342
,
343

see also specific regions and countries

Asquith, Herbert,
90

astronomy, astrophysics,
541-2
,
587

Atkinson, Brooks,
137

Atkinson. Ti-Grace,
444

Atlantic, Battle of the,
169-70
,
171-2
,
173
,
175
,
180
,
197
,
217
,
403

Atlantic Charter,
171
,
192
,
338

atom bomb,
223
,
224-6
,
227
,
465
,
545
,
548-9

Soviets in possession of,
239-40

atomic energy,
229
,
256
,
273
,
548
,
549
,
552

Atomic Energy Commission,
391
,
549

“Atoms for Peace,”
256

Attica prison (New York),
520

Attlee, Clement,
224

Auden, W. H.,
159

Australia,
176
,
265

Austria, German annexation of,
158

auto industry,
98
,
572-8

foreign competition,
578
,

production,
101
,
182-3
; postwar,
573

strikes,
187
; 1930s,
49
,
97-9
; 1970,
573

automation,
272-4
,
279
,
285
,
396
,
543
,
550

in printing,
281-2

Axis, Berlin-Rome-Tokyo,
157
,
159
,
166
,
173
,
177
,
223-4

Allied munitions edge over,
183
,
199
,
200

Aycock, Alice,
623

baby-boomers,
279
,
517
,
660

Bachrach, Elinor,
577

Baez, Joan,
371
,
396
,
407
,
427
,
428

Bailey, Josiah W.,
94

Bailyn, Bernard,
125

Baker, Ella,
357-8
,
375
,
379
,
384

Baker, George Pierce,
136

Baker, Howard,
504

Baker, Newton D.,
11

Bakke, Allan,
653

Baldwin, James,
369
,
615
,
620

Baldwin, Roger,
54

Balkans,
206
,
211

Soviet domination of,
226
,
229
,
232

Ball, George,
334
,
343
,
410
,
499

bank holiday of 1933,
24

Banking Act of 1935,
75

bankruptcies, 1980s,
640

banks and banking:

failures: Depression,
21
; 1980s,
640

FDR policies,
75
,
127
,
213

regulation,
16
,
40
,
41

Baptist churches,
355
,
594

Baran, Paul,
564

Barber, James David,
466

Barber, Philip,
136

Barkley, Alben,
76
,
110-11
,
164
,
192
,
203
,
319

Barnett, Ross,
365

Baruch, Bernard,
10
,
13
,
45

bases, US,
239
,
264-5

Russia encircled by,
265
,
286
,
334
,
337

Batista, Fulgencio,
331

battered women and children,
449
,
534

Bay of Pigs fiasco,
331-7
,
343
,
524

Beard, Charles A.,
169

Beard, Mary,
29

Beatles,
429-30
,
431
,
432

Beat subculture,
394
,
426-32

Begin, Menachem,
525-6

Belafonte, Harry,
369

Belfrage, Sally,
381

Belgium,
162
,
295

Bell, Daniel,
274
,
277
,
278

Bellah, Robert,
595
,
598-9

Bell Laboratories,
550

Bellow, Saul,
297
,
300
,
408
,
615
,
619-20

Benes, Eduard,
158

Ben-Gurion, David,
546

Bennett, Harry,
573

Benny, Jack,
193-4

Benson, Elmer,
111
,
114

Bentham, Jeremy,
600

Benton, Thomas Hart,
133

Benton, William,
287

Bentsen, Lloyd,
658
,
659

Berkeley student rebellion,
394-6
,
432

Berkshire County, Mass.,
673-6
,
682-3

Berle, Adolf,
13
,
17
,
28
,
37
,
64
,
74
,
101
,
129
,
213
,
564

Berlin, Irving,
194

Berlin, Isaiah,
213
,
219

Berlin crises,
238
,
239
,
240
,
261
,
333

Berman, Larry,
511

Bernstein, Barton,
127
,
224

Bernstein, Carl,
501

Bernstein, Irving,
50
,
55

Berrigan, Daniel and Philip,
421
,
537

Berry, George L.,
55

Bethlehem Steel,
100

Bethune, Mary McLeod,
113
,
434

Bevel, James,
356
,
380
,
383

Bibby, John F.,
663

Biddle, Francis,
190

Biddle, George,
133

Bigelow, Albert,
361

Bill of Rights,
131
,
277
,
281
,
296
,
309
,
375
,
539
,
540
,
634-640
,
667
,
679
,
680

English,
539

Bird, Larry,
611

Birmingham, Ala.,
361-2
,
366-9
,
372
,
375

Black, Hugo,
321
,
365
,
667

black culture,
399-400

Blackmun, Harry A.,
506
,
653

Black Muslims,
386
,
398
,
401

black nationalism,
398-9
,
401

Black Panthers,
386
,
399
,
401

Black Power movement,
387-8
,
398-401

blacks,
120
,
122
,
347
,
460-1
,
539
,
610
,
667
see also
civil rights movement; racial

discrimination; segregation education and income,
571

FDR and,
113
,
117
,
321
,
359
,
371

loss of unity,
388
,
400-1

middle class,
314
,
316

migration of,
315
,
385

and New Deal,
39
,
81
,
358-9

one-parent families and welfare,
631

and poverty,
313-16
,
385
,
570-1

radical leaders,
385-8

rural South,
313-16

stereotypical attitudes toward,
353

urban North,
385-6
,
388
,
397-401

versus the federal government, under Kennedy,
358-72
,
374-5

violence against,
352
,
357
,
361-2
,
365
,
368-9
,
372
,
380
,
382-4
,
386

violent action by,
383
,
388
,
399
,
413
; race riots,
398
,
400

voting rights for,
321-3
,
357
,
366
,
371
,
378-84
; registration drives,
356
,
378-81
,
382-4

voting Democratic,
87
,
237
,
382
,
657
,
660

as wartime labor,
188-9
,
358

women,
189
,
315
,
434
,
439-40
,
451-4
,
570

black separatism,
398-9

Blair, Thomas L.,
399

Blinder, Alan S.,
562

Blitzstein, Marc,
138-9

Bloodworth, Dennis,
470

Bloom, Allan,
665

Blum, John,
195

Blumenthal, Sidney,
629

“boat people,”
489
,
494

Bohlen, Charles,
252-3

Boland Amendment,
644

Bolivar, Simon,
331

Boiling, Richard,
389

book publishing,
612
,
615-17
,
620

Boone, Buford,
353

Boorstin, Daniel,
278

Borah, William,
154
,
158
,
160