American Experiment (464 page)

and programs for the poor,
566
,
569

Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald,
309
,
312

Kennedy Administration,
389

Kennedy family,
309

Kent, Rockwell,
134

Kent State University tragedy,
425

Kenyon, Dorothy,
440

Kerouac, Jack,
394

Kerr, Clark,
396-7

Kesey, Ken,
430

Kevles, Daniel J.,
549

Key, V. O., Jr.,
354
,
593

Keynes, John Maynard,
130
,
131
,
561
,
677

Keynesianism,
102
,
103
,
130
,
561-2
,
570-1

wartime,
215
,
561

Keyserling, Leon,
287

Khrushchev, Nikita,
241
,
259-62
,
265-6
,
288
,
335-6
,
340
,
362

on capitalism,
301-2

in Cuban missile crisis,
333-5

at Vienna summit,
332-3
,
335

visit to US,
260-1
,
301-2

Kilpatrick, James J.,
627

Kilrain, Jack,
307

Kim Il Sung,
240-1

King, Coretta Scott,
326
,
350
,
359
,
360
,
367
,
372

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
349-52
,
356
,
357-8
,
362-4
,
366-9
,
375
,
381
,
382-4
,
461-2
,
571
,
593
,
661
,
672
,
678

assassination of,
413
,
414
,
460

intellectual acumen of,
350
,
461
,
571

jailing of,
326
,
359
,
364
,
367-8
,
382

Kennedy brothers and,
326
,
360
,
363

“Letter from Birmingham Jail,”
367-8

1963 Washington Freedom Rally,
371-2

and Peace Movement,
401
,
407
,
409

King, Martin Luther, Sr.,
350
,
360

King, Mary,
442

Kingston Frio,
428

Kinsey, Alfred,
436
,
533-4

Kirk, Grayson,
413-14

Kirkendall, Richard,
238

Kissinger, Henry,
417-18
,
422
,
424
,
468
,
470-7
,
479-87
,
492-4
,
523

and China,
470-5
,
625

and Russia,
476-7
,
485-7

in Vietnam peace talks,
480-4

Klehr, Harvey,
85

Klein, Joe,
142

Kleindienst, Richard,
501
,
505

Knights of Labor,
45

Knopf, Alfred A.,
593

Knowland newspapers,
46

Knox, Frank,
83
,
163
,
169
,
175

Knudsen, William,
98
,
575

Kobler, John,
284

Koch, Edward,
635

Koestler, Arthur,
277
,
295

Kopkind, Andrew,
432

Koppes, Clayton R.,
578

Korea,
240-1

see also
North Korea; South Korea

Korean War,
241-3
,
247
,
250
,
255
,
418
,
497
,
527

as consequence of mutual US-Soviet misperceptions,
241-2
,
254
,
260
,
262

Kostelanetz, Richard,
616-17

Kosygin, Aleksei,
477

Kramer, Hilton,
622

Kristol, Irving,
628

Kuchel, Thomas H.,
376

Ku Klux Klan,
45
,
353
,
354
,
361
,
367
,
369
,
384
,
386

Kunstler, William,
520

labor,
27
,
33
,
45-57
,
96-100
,
165
,
213
,
637

and antiwar movement,
408

on the assembly line,
271-2

and automation,
273
,
274

and civil rights movement,
371
,
377

Fair Deal measures for,
236

cool to left radicalism,
52-3

labor-liberal-left coalition,
118-20
,
390
,
399
,
462
,
632

participation in management,
565
,
578

Southern California,
50
,
603

as special interest group,
107

wartime,
184
,
186-9
,
453

women,
188
,
453
,
457

see also
farm labor; strikes; unions Ladd, Everett Carll,
657

Ladies’ Home Journal
,
447

La Follette, Philip,
68
,
111
,
114

La Follette, Robert, Sr.,
14
,
46
,
68
,
236
,
416
,
656

La Follette, Robert, Jr.,
14
,
68
,
73
,
94
,
108
,
117
,
244

Laird, Melvin,
467

laissez-faire,
42
,
560-1

Landon, Alfred M.,
83
,
84-5
,
119
,
126
,
165

Langdon, Samuel,
532

Laning, Edward,
133

Laos,
342
,
343
,
418

Larson, Sheila,
599

Lasch, Christopher,
599

Lash, Joseph P.,
9

Lasswell, Harold D.,
7
,
593

Latin America,
265
,
328-32

Alliance for Progress,
328
,
331
,
336

poverty in,
303-4
,
329
,
330
,
336

US interventionism in,
328
,
330-2
,
524

see also
Central America; Monroe Doctrine

Lawrence, David,
107

leadership:

decline,
660-3
,
671-2
,
680-1

group-oriented participatory, in

movement politics,
358
,
384
,
395-6
,
443-4
,
455-6

see also
intellectual leadership; moral leadership

League for Industrial Democracy,
392
,
408

League of Nations,
10
,
150
,
152
,
157
,
170
,
490
,
545

League of Universal Brotherhood,
536

League of Women Voters,
433
,
438
,
659

Leahy, Adm. William,
206
,
208

Leavitt, Helen,
573

Lebanon,
255
,
525

Lee, Herbert,
380

Leff, Mark,
77

left wing,
51-4
,
122-3
,
408-9
,
625-6
,
628-32
,
661-2

in elections:
1936
,
84-5
;
1972
,
460-2

FDR and,
41
,
42
,
45
,
70
,
74
,
117-18
,
120

intellectuals,
394
,
409
,
462
,
565
,
625
,
629-32

labor-liberal-left coalition,
118-20
,
390
,
399
,
462
,
632

see also
liberalism; New Left; socialism

LeHand, “Missy,”
3

Lehman, Herbert,
21
,
111
,
287

Lekachman, Robert,
561

LeMay, Curtis E.,
415

Lemke, William,
84
,
85
,
87

Lend-Lease program,
168-9
,
496
,
555

Lenin, Vladimir I.,
51-2
,
221
,
565
,
642

Leninism, Third World,
305
,
336
,
343
,
421

Lennon, John,
432

Leo XIII, Pope,
57

Leonard, “Sugar Ray,”
609

Lerner, Max,
265
,
269
,
279
,
282
,
408
,
533-4
,
627

lesbianism,
450-1

Lessing, Doris,
454

Leuchtenburg, William E.,
213

Levine, Meldon E.,
532

Lévi-Strauss, Claude,
624

Lewis, John (SNCC organizer),
361
,
371

Lewis, John L. (labor leader),
33
,
46
,
55-6
,
82
,
107
,
165
,
187-8
,
191
,
661

and sit-down strikes of 1930s,
97-100

Lewis, Oscar,
569

Lewis, Sinclair,
137
,
297

liberalism, liberals,
347
,
371
,
390
,
408
,
454
,
625-6
,
629-32
,
652

accomplishments of,
629-30

coalitions across party lines,
70
,
109

definition of freedom by,
666
,
672

Democrats,
13
,
15
,
64
,
73-4
,
87
,
109
,
118-19
,
319
,
320
,
322
,
324
,
326
,
359
,
389-90
,
414
,
466
,
625
,
629-30
,
661-2
; FDR,
5
,
10
,
13
,
45
,
73
,
77-8
,
111
,
118-20
; JFK,
374
; in 1972 election,
460-2

divisions of 1980s among,
630-1

economic (Keynesian),
562

exhaustion of agenda of,
626
,
630-2

intellectual weaknesses of,
120-4
,
461-2
,
531
,
630
,
679-80

labor-liberal-left coalition,
118-20
,
390
,
399
,
462
,
632

of Niebuhr,
293-4

Republicans,
70
,
87
,
109
,
119
,
466
,
636

views on crime,
516
,
519

liberation movements,
305
,
342-4
,
527

libertarianism,
88
,
534
,
627-9
,
667
,
671

liberty, individual,
88
,
120-4
,
131
,
231
,
266-7
,
275
,
296
,
393
,
635
,
665-7

and equality,
125
,
267
,
637
,
679-80
; as competing values,
631
,
679

feminist definitions of,
454

positive vs. negative,
121
,
124
,
666-7

right-wing definition of,
42
,
123
,
667
,
672

Western tradition and sources of,
539-40

see also
freedom; individualism

Liberty ships,
183-4

Libya,
574

Lichtenstein, Roy,
621

Liddy, G. Gordon,
500-1
,
513

Life
magazine,
276
,
284
,
427
,
441
,
579
,
614

Lilienthal, David,
593

Lincoln, Abraham,
33
,
87
,
88
,
196
,
212
,
213
,
218
,
251
,
337
,
348
,
657
,
666

shadow of, in civil rights struggle,
358
,
371
,
374
,
376

Lindbergh, Charles A.,
160
,
165
,
169

Lin Piao,
405
,
475

Lippmann, Walter,
12
,
19
,
55
,
123
,
131
,
190
,
205
,
283
,
288-90
,
291
,
294
,
593

and FDR,
20-1
,
41

internationalism of,
165

and Johnson,
407
,
412

on Nixon,
417

and Truman Doctrine,
234
,
289