And Yet... (44 page)

“Gertrude Bell: The Woman Who Made Iraq” (June 2007),
153
–58

“G. K. Chesterton: The Reactionary” (March 2012),
299
–310

“Ian Fleming: Bottoms Up” (April 2006),
97
–103

“Imperial Follies” (December 2006),
141
–46

“Mikhail Lermontov: A Doomed Young Man” (June 2005),
57
–62

“On Becoming American” (May 2005),
53
–55

“Orhan Pamuk: Mind the Gap” (October 2004),
29
–37

“Paul Scott: Victoria's Secret” (January/February 2008),
203
–9

“Rosa Luxemburg: Red Rosa” (June 2001),
273
–79

“Salman Rushdie: Hobbes in the Himalayas” (September 2005),
63
–69

“V. S. Naipaul: Cruel and Unusual” (November 2008),
217
–24

Audacity of Hope, The
(Obama),
230
–31

Auden, W. H.,
149

Aung San Suu Kyi,
150

Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF),
108

Axelrod, David,
230

Ayers, William,
232

Baden-Powell, Robert,
16

Bailey, Peter,
221

Baker, James A. III,
128
–29,
216

Baldwin, James,
229

Balfour Declaration,
156

Balkenende, Jan Peter,
194

Bamford, James

Body of Secrets,
111

The Puzzle Palace,
111

Banderas, Antonio,
3

Barnier, Michel,
259

Barr, Bob,
112

Batista, Fulgencio,
3
,
8
,
10
,
11

Bayle, Pierre,
193

BBC,
1
,
262

Beauvoir, Simone de,
174

Beinart, Peter,
The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again,
115
–21

Belge, Murat,
263

Bell, Aimee,
183

Bell, Gertrude,
153
–58

“A Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia,”
157

Bend in the River, A
(Naipaul),
219

Benedict XVI, Pope,
139
–40

Bennett, Alan,
The History Boys,
141

Bergen, Peter,
111

Beria, Lavrenty,
143

Berlin, Isaiah,
27
,
148
,
199

Berman, Paul,
118

Bernal, J. D.,
28

Betancourt, Ingrid,
150

Bethune, Norman,
160

Bevan, Aneurin,
146

Beyond Belief
(Naipaul),
222

Bhagavad Gita,
68

Bhowani Junction
(Masters),
205

Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali,
135

bin Laden, Osama,
132

Bitter Fruit
(Schlesinger and Kinzer),
8

Black and Tans,
93

Black Caucus,
230

Black Jacobins, The
(James),
223

Black Panthers,
111

Blackwell, Kenneth,
50

Blair, Tony,
96
,
106
,
112

Blake, William,
317
n

Blue Nights
(Didion),
281
–82

Blumenthal, Richard,
271

Blunt, Wilfred,
158

Bobbitt, Philip,
72

Body of Secrets
(Bamford),
111

Boehner, John,
271

Bolívar, Simón,
7

Bolivia, Guevara's death in,
7
,
15
–17

Borges, Jorges Luis,
166

Bosnia,
119
,
193
,
215
–16
,
255

Boston Massacre,
206

Boucher, Richard,
251

Boxer, Barbara,
120

Bradlee, Ben,
138

Bradley, Doug,
74

Brasillach, Robert,
150

Brideshead Revisited
(Waugh),
168
,
308

Britain's Secret Propaganda War
(Lashmar and Oliver),
19
–20

British Empire, end of,
141
–46
,
203
–4

British Empire Exhibition (1924),
92

British Museum,
239

Broaddrick, Juanita,
213

Brookhiser, Richard,
137

Bruce, Evangeline,
199

Bryan, William Jennings,
253

Brzezinski, Zbigniew,
200

Buchan, John,
155

Buchanan, James,
76

Buchanan, Patrick J.,
53
,
55
,
105
,
116

Buchwald, Art,
87

Buckley, Christopher,
233

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
73
,
137

Burdett-Coutts, Angela,
296

Burke, Edmund,
42

Burke and Hare,
160

Burmese Days
(Orwell),
205
,
314

Burns, John,
110
–11

Bush administration (W.),
107
–9,
111
,
121
,
127
–29,
213
,
254

Bush at War
(Woodward),
255

Bush, George H. W.,
17
,
72
,
119
–20,
128
,
216
,
226

Bush, George W.

bombing proposal by,
106
,
112

and elections,
48
,
50
,
225

medal awarded by,
109

and Middle East wars,
106
,
120
,
227

and September 11 attacks,
109
,
226

speeches of,
30
,
226

and warrantless surveillance,
107
,
108
,
109
,
111

Bush, Laura,
226

Byron, George Gordon, Lord,
58
,
59
,
60
,
62

“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage,”
239

“The Curse of Minerva,”
239

Byzantine Empire,
238

Cambanis, Thanassis,
A Privilege to Die,
267

Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson,
A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake,
165

Camus, Albert,
151

The Rebel,
149

Capra, Frank,
46

Carlyle, Thomas,
296
,
318

Carr, Allen,
178
,
186
,
188

Carr, E. H.,
21

Carrington, Lord,
253

Carter, Jimmy,
118
,
199
–200,
202

Carter, John P.,
77

Casanova complex,
62

Case Against Barack Obama, The
(Freddoso),
229
–34

“cash nexus,”
1

Casino Royale
(Fleming),
99
,
102

Castro, Fidel,
4
,
100
,
149

and Guevara,
10
,
11

lynch trials ordered by,
11

and revolution,
1
,
9
,
10
,
12

Castro, Raúl,
11

Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron,
161

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
21
,
274

Chalabi, Ahmad,
256

Chamberlain, Joseph,
95

Chamberlain, Neville,
95

Chandler, Raymond,
167

Chanel, Coco,
148

Channon, Henry “Chips,”
200

Chappaquiddick,
137
,
244

Charterhouse of Parma, The
(Stendhal),
20

Chaucer, Geoffrey,
305

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
(Anderson),
1
–18

Chekhov, Anton,
36

Cheney, Dick,
48
,
50
,
128
,
253

Chesterton, G. K.,
299
–310
,
318
n

on Distributism,
302
–3,
308
,
309

Father Brown stories,
299
,
307
–8

“Lepanto,”
299
–300,
301

The Man Who Was Thursday,
307

and Marconi case,
301

The Napoleon of Notting Hill,
307

and Nazism,
308
–10

on paradoxes,
301
,
303
–4,
306
–7,
309

Paradox of Conservatism,
301

poems by,
299

“The Secret People,”
300
–301,
303

“Why I Am a Catholic,”
306

“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” (Byron),
239

Childers, Erskine,
The Riddle of the Sands,
155

Chinese fighter aircraft collision (2001),
254

Chirac, Jacques,
96

Christie, Agatha,
Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?,
167

Christmas,
87
–89
,
202
,
283
–89

Christmas Carol, A
(Dickens),
287
,
293

“Christmas Carol, A” (Lehrer),
283
–84,
285
,
286

Chung, Connie,
138

Church, Frank,
111

Churchill, Winston,
92
,
93
,
142
,
144
,
153

CIA,
3
,
113

and Castro,
100

and Congress for Cultural Freedom,
201

and Guatemala,
8
,
11

and Guevara,
4
,
7
,
16
–17

and Hungary,
144

and Middle East,
109
,
111

Cienfuegos, Camilo,
10

Cities of Salt quintet (Munif),
29

civil rights,
198
–99

Clinton administration,
72
,
202
,
216

Clinton, Bill,
41
,
54
,
125
,
227

Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act,
112
,
226

and election campaign,
216

and Hillary,
211
,
212

and Schlesinger,
202

and sex,
202
,
212
–13

and TV,
137

Clinton, Chelsea,
216

Clinton, Hillary,
121
,
211
–14
,
215
–16
,
230
–31

Clymer, Adam,
245

Codebreakers, The
(Kahn),
111

Cold War,
117
,
119
,
121

Colefax, Sybil,
95

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, “Khubla Khan,”
36

colonialism,
145

Coming Up for Air
(Orwell),
312

Communism, fall of,
141

Communist Party

in Britain,
21
,
22
–23,
24
,
27

in Cuba,
10
,
11
,
13

in Spain,
21
,
22

Condit, Gary,
138

Condition of the Working Class in England, The
(Engels),
313

Congress for Cultural Freedom,
201

Connally, C. Ellen,
48

Connery, Sean,
99

Connor, “Bull,”
199

Conquest, Robert,
273
–74

Constitution, U.S.,
105
,
106
,
108

Coppola, Peter,
189

Cortázar, Julio,
6

Coughlin, Father,
54

Coulter, Ann,
232

Council on American-Islamic Relations,
110

Coward, Noël,
99
,
102

Craig, Daniel,
99

Crick, Bernard,
20

Croly, Herbert,
The Promise of American Life,
168

Cromwell, Oliver,
89
,
284
,
319

Cronkite, Walter,
244

Crosby, Bing,
285

Crossman, Richard,
26

Crump, Ed “Boss,”
43

Cuba

Castro revolution in,
1
,
9
,
10
,
12

Communist Party in,
10
,
11
,
13

Guevara in,
11
–13

legal currencies in,
1
–4

Ministry of Tourism,
2

Cuban missile crisis,
12

Cuban National Bank,
1

Cultural Amnesia: Necesssary Memories From History and the Arts
(James),
147
–51

Cunninghame Graham, R. B.,
158

“Curse of Minerva, The” (Byron),
239