American Experiment (458 page)

progressive era democratization of,
646-7

reform proposals,
648
,
649-50

see also
Bill of Rights

Consumer Advisory Board,
33

consumer protection,
5
,
33
,
236

consumption trends,
184-5
,
601
,
668

containment policy,
239
,
286-7
,
290
,
491
,
496

Contras,
633
,
644

Cook, Bruce,
427

Coolidge, Calvin,
20
,
27
,
71
,
152
,
328
,
329
,
466

Cooper, Gary,
231

Coordinating Committee for Fundamental American Freedoms,
377

Coors, Joseph,
637

Copland, Aaron,
593

Coral Sea, battle of,
179

Corbett, Jim,
307

Corcoran, Thomas G.,
74

corporate taxes,
72
,
191
,
554
,
558
,
639

Corwin, Edward S.,
92

Costigan, Edward Prentiss,
73

Coughlin, Fr. Charles E.,
57-60
,
63
,
70
,
73
,
79
,
80
,
84
,
85-6
,
105

isolationism of,
154
,
160
,
169

Council on United Civil Rights Leadership,
371

counterculture of 1960s,
431-2

Country Joe and the Fish (rock group),
430-1

Court-packing plan, FDR,
93-6
,
105
,
118

Cousins, Norman,
392

Cowan, Ruth S.,
551

Cowley, Malcolm,
299

Cox, Archibald,
505
,
512

Cox, Edward E.,
106

Cox, Harvey,
293

Cox, James,
24
,
152

Cradle Will Rock, The
(FTP production),
138-9

Crankshaw, Edward,
220

Crawford, Alan,
626

creationist theory,
667

credit, sex discrimination in,
439

Creel, George,
69
,
195

crime,
514-17
,
594

control,
466

poverty and,
516
,
518
,
568-9
,
571

statistics,
516
,
517

white-collar,
514-16
,
517

criminal justice system,
517-20
,
651
,
653-4

Croly, Herbert,
122

Cronin, Thomas E.,
510

Cronkite, Walter,
411

Crosby, Bing,
194

Crucible, The
(Miller),
297
,
300

Cuba,
330-1
,
333
,
336

Soviet military in,
333-4
,
526
,
527

US policy toward,
328
,
331
,
336
; Bay of Pigs invasion,
331-2
,
333
,
336-7
,
524

Cuban missile crisis,
333-5
,
336
,
337
,
528

Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (1949),
277

cultural programs of Roosevelt Administration,
132-41

Cummings, Homer S.,
24
,
90-2
,
112

Cuomo, Mario,
662

Curley, James Michael,
311
,
312

Currie, Lauchlin,
102

Curry, John Steuart,
138

Czechoslovakia,
149
,
158
,
159

Soviet control over,
233
,
469
,
527

Daily Worker
,
52
,
243
,
252

Daley, Richard,
400
,
414-15
,
477

Dallek, Robert,
156
,
217

Dallin, David,
260

Daniels, Josephus,
48
,
329

Danto, Arthur,
623

Dark Ghetto
(Clark),
385

Darlan, Jean,
181
,
217

Darwin, Charles,
269

Daughters of the American Revolution,
113

Daughters of Bilitis,
450

Davis, Chester,
66

Davis, Elmer,
193

Davis, Jefferson,
384

Davis, John W.,
43
,
81

Davis, Kenneth S.,
465

D-Day, World War II,
200

Dean, John,
499-504
,
510

Death of a Salesman
(Miller),
297
,
300-1

de Beauvoir, Simone,
298
,
444
,
447
,
454

Debray, Régis,
336

Debs, Eugene,
53
,
631

Declaration of Independence,
277
,
341
,
665

Declaration of Rights of Man,
539
,
540
,
665

Declaration of the United Nations,
178

Deconstruction,
624

Deeter, Jasper,
136

Defense Mediation Board,
186

defense spending:

Eisenhower and,
255
,
256
,
262

Reagan increases in,
639
,
640

deficit spending,
see
federal budget

de Gaulle, Charles,
195
,
208
,
217
,
294
,
332

Degler, Carl,
353

de Kooning, Willem,
135
,
621
,
622

Delano, Laura,
212

Delors, Jacques,
538

democracy,
88
,
347-8
,
600
,
619
,
645-7
,
661

Lippmann’s pessimism,
289-90
,
294

Democratic Advisory Committee
(later
Council, DAC),
287

Democratic Leadership Council,
659

Democratic National Committee,
29
,
42
,
80
,
458
,
499-500
,
511

Democratic party,
116-18
,
629
,
632
,
649
,
655-60
(
see also
elections and campaigns)

centrists,
658-9
,
662

congressional majorities of,
126
;
1935-36
,
37
;
1937-38
,
87
;
1939-40
,111;
1949-50
,
238
;
1951-52
,
245
;
1955-56
, Senate,
320
;
1965-66
,
389-90
;
1973-74
,
461
;
1981-82.
House,
639

“congressional” vs. “presidential,”
119
,
126
,
236
,
287
; and civil rights legislation,
321-2
,
376-8

conservative wing,
80
,
112
,
117-19
,
191
,
320
,
466
; and FDR’s New Deal,
30
,
42
,
73
,
108-9
,
112
; Reagan and,
638

conventions of:
1924
,
11-12
;
1932
,
3
,
4-6
,
10-12
,
15
,
42
,
61
;
1936
,
83-4
;
1940
,
164
;
1944
,
203
;
1948
,
236-7
;
1952,
249
; 1956
,
287-8
;
1960
,
325
;
1964
,
381-2
;
1968
,
414-15
,
458
;
1972
,
458
; minority representation in,
381-2
,
648
; two-thirds rule for nomination,
10-11
,
83
; women’s representation in,
458
,
648

FDR as leader of,
108-11
,
116-18
,
666
; his liberalization goal,
109-11
,
118-20

fragmentation of,
426
,
639-40
; in civil rights issues,
236-7
,
249
,
250
,
321-2
; in New Deal era,
236-7
,
247
; in foreign policy of cold war,
236
,
285-8
; hawks vs. doves,
236
,
285-6
,
334
,
404
; in 1920s,
10-11
; in 1932,
10-13
,
15
,
20
; in 1930s New Deal era,
42-3
,
64
,
73
,
79
,
81-2
,
106-7
,
108-11
,
116-19
; in 1930s foreign policy,
154
; in 1960,
323-6
; in 1968,
412
,
414-15

liberalism,
13
,
15
,
64
,
73-4
,
87
,
109
,
319
,
320
,
322
,
324
,
326
,
359
,
389-90
,
414
,
466
,
629-30
,
661-2
; liberal-labor-left coalition,
118-20
,
390
,
399
,
632

midterm policy conference,
659

New Deal coalition of voters for,
80
,
238
,
656-7

1980s constituency search,
658-60
,
661-2

overlap with Republican party,
119
,
126
,
320
,
466

reconstruction of,
656-7
,
670-1

Southern wing of,
11
,
80
,
112
,
118-19
,
320-2
,
354
,
360
; and civil rights,
236-7
,
248-9
,
250
,
321-2
,
325
,
354
,
360
,
365
,
376-8
; coalition with Republicans,
132
,
191
,
466
,
640
; defections of 1980s,
657

Dempsey, Jack,
609

Deng Xiaoping,
529

Denmark, Nazi invasion of,
161

Dennis, Eugene,
243

Denver school desegregation case,
653

Depression, Great,
18-19
,
31
,
52
,
58
,
313
,
648

literature,
141-6

see also
New Deal

destroyers-for-bases deal,
164

Derrida, Jacques,
624

détente,
265
,
286
,
287
,
461
,
488-9
,
490-1
,
496

Carter efforts,
528-9

Eisenhower attempts,
256-7
,
259-62

Nixon years,
476-9
,
485-7

Detroit,
292

Depression effects in,
58

race riots: of 1943,
189
; of 1967,
574

school busing case,
653

Dewey, John,
121
,
124-5
,
135
,
292
,
593
,
658

Dewey, Thomas,
111
,
163
,
190-1
,
236
,
246
,
248

as presidential candidate: in 1944,
203-5
,
237
; in 1948,
236-8
,
239
,
286

Dewson, Molly,
29
,
64
,
83
,
103
,
434

Dialectic of Sex, The
(Firestone),
445

Diem, Ngo Dinh,
342
,
343-4
,
419
,
504

Dien Bien Phu,
342
,
465

Dies, Martin,
112

Diggins, John P.,
534

direct action:

civil rights movement,
356-8
,
366
,
371
,
379

student movement,
396

women’s movement,
445-7
,
449

Dirksen, Everett,
245
,
248
,
253
,
320
,
377
,
499

disarmament,
392

see also
arms control

discrimination:

“double,” against minority women,
189
,
452

economic cost of,
385

outlawed,
378

“reverse,”
653

see also
education; employment; public facilities and transport; racial discrimination; sex discrimination; voting rights

Divine, Robert A.,
286

“Dixiecrats” (1948),
237
,
238

Djilas, Milovan,
227

Dobrynin, Anatoly,
476
,
485-6
,
523

Doctorow, E. L.,
615
,
617

Dohrn, Bernadine,
421

dollar,
555-6
,
557