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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century

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by Robert A. Heinlein


  civilians, bombing of

  Civil War

  Clark, John

  Clark, Robert N. S.

  Clarke, Arthur C.

  class warfare

  Clifton, Robert

  Clifton, Susie (Florence G. McChesney)

  Clifton’s Cafeteria (Los Angeles)

  Clingerman, Mildred

  Clinton, Clifford

  Coca-Cola

  codependency theme

  cohabitation, illegality of

  Cohen, Octavus Roy

  Coign, Armand

  Coinage Act of

  Cold War

  Collier’s magazine

  Collin, Mary (Briggs). See Briggs, Mary

  Colón, Panama

  Colorado silver mine venture

  Colorado Springs, Colo., RAH’s plan to live with Ginny in

  Colorado Sunshine Club

  Columbian Exposition (1893)

  Columbia Pictures

  “Columbus Was a Dope,”

  Combat Information Center (CIC) equipment

  Comet magazine

  Comintern, Seventh World Congress of (1935)

  command philosophy

  commercial space movement

  “Common Sense,”

  Common Sense (Paine)

  communications, RAH’s experience in

  communism

  RAH’s opposition to

  as “Red Fascism,”

  in Russia

  Communist International

  Communist Party

  infiltration of Democratic Party and EPIC

  unwelcome endorsement of RAH in 1938 campaign

  Comstock, Merrill

  Comstock laws

  concentration camps

  conduct, ranking of, at Naval Academy

  Conklin, Groff

  conscription

  contraterrene matter (CT) theme

  Conyngham, USS

  Coolidge, Calvin

  co-op movement

  Cornog, Robert

  Coronado, Calif.

  Corson, Bill

  “Cosmic Construction Corps,”

  accepted and renamed “Misfit,”

  Cosmopolitan magazine

  Coughlin, Charles Edward “Father,”

  Count Basie

  counterculture

  County Librarians’ Association, Los Angeles, RAH’s talk to

  courts martial (GCM)

  “Coventry,”

  The Craft (magic)

  “Creation Took Eight Days,”

  crime, organized

  Cronkite, Walter

  Crowley, Aleister

  Book of the Law

  Crown Publishers

  Crump, Irving

  Cuba

  Cuba Libres, RAH’s favorite drink

  Cuppy, Will

  currency, value of, in 1930s vs. in 2000s

  Curry, Elinor (RAH’s first wife)

  adultery of, during honeymoon with RAH

  divorce from

  Curtis, Charles

  “Da Capo,”

  Dalgliesh, Alice

  The Silver Pencil

  Damico, Tony

  dances, in Annapolis

  “Dance Session” (poem)

  Dan Patch (horse)

  Dark Days

  Dart, Caryl

  Darwin, Charles

  On the Origin of Species

  The Descent of Man

  Darwinian thinking

  dating, double, in bed

  Daugherty, Walter

  David, Joseph B.

  David Lamb (character)

  Davis, Bette

  Davis, James

  Dawes, Vice President

  Deacon, Sergeant

  de Camp, Catherine Crook

  de Camp, L. Sprague

  RAH’s advice, to tone himself down

  de Camp, Lyman

  Deems, Navigator

  Deladrier, Capitaine

  Delos Wait (character)

  del Rey, Lester, “The Luck of Ignatz,”

  demerits

  Democratic Central Committee (California)

  Democratic National Committee

  Democratic National Convention 1940 (Chicago) 1944

  Democratic Party

  in 1938 election

  in 1946 election

  in California

  communist infiltration of

  Freethinker wing of

  in Kansas City

  RAH’s post-War involvement with

  split in, between EPICs and traditional Democrats

  Denbo, Robert Wayne

  Denver, Colo.

  Pendergast men in

  Denver Athletic Club

  Denver Post

  depression, late-onset

  Destination Moon (movie)

  destroyers

  Deutsch, Bill

  The Devil in the Cheese (play)

  “The Devil Makes the Law,”

  de Weldon, Felix W.

  Dewey, John

  Individualism: Old and New

  Diana Productions

  Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities

  Dirac, Paul

  disabled veterans

  Leslyn’s work in rehabilitation of

  discipline

  diving

  divorce

  co-respondent in

  Dockweiler, John

  dog-people theme

  Doheny, Edward L.

  double dating in bed

  double standard, in the Navy

  Douglas, C. H., Social Credit

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan

  Douglas, Melvyn

  Douglas, Myrtle R.

  Downer, Dick

  Downey, Sheridan

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

  “The Horror of the Heights,”

  Dreamland Auditorium (Los Angeles)

  drinking

  Dugan, Grace “Cats”. See Sang, Grace Dugan

  Duncan, George B.

  Dunne, J. W.

  An Experiment with Time

  Dunsany, Lord

  Durant, Ariel

  Durant, Will

  dust devil story

  Dymaxion House

  Eagle lunar lander

  Earp, Wyatt

  earthquakes

  “Easy Job,”

  Eddy, Nelson, “The Ballad of Rodger Young,”

  Edgerly, Mira

  Edison, Thomas

  Edwards, Charles

  Edward VII

  Einstein-Minkowski space-time

  elderly, economic selfishness of, in RAH’s view

  elections of 1934, in California

  elections of 1936, in California

  elections of 1938, in California

  elections of 1944, Roosevelt’s 4th term, and choice of Truman as Vice President

  elections of

  RAH’s idea to give the presidency to the Republicans

  Electrical Experimenter magazine

  Electric Park, Kansas City

  electric power, cheap, RAH’s plan for

  elephants

  Eleventh Commandment (Thou Shalt Not Get Caught)

  Elite Post Card Co.

  Elks Magazine

  Ellis, Havelock

  Elysia (Valley of the Nude) (film)

  Elysian Fields nudist camp

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  “Over-Soul,”

  Empire State Building

  Emsheimer, Ted

  End Poverty in Civilization

  End Poverty League

  engineering, studies at Naval Academy

  Enola Gay

  EPIC—“End Poverty in California,”

  candidates from

  communists in

  constitution proposed, to be written by RAH

  continued survival after 1934 defeat

  convention (1935)

  economic plan

  fracturing of, into two groups

  histories written about

  nominal control of
Democratic Party

  political alliances of

  waning power of

  EPIC News

  epistemology

  equator, ceremonies when crossing

  “Eros and Agape” (introduction to Theodore Sturgeon’s posthumous novel, Godbody)

  Eshbach, Lloyd

  Esnault-Pelterie, Robert

  Esperanto

  etiquette, instruction in, at the Naval Academy

  Evans, Anna (great-grandmother)

  Evening News-Standard

  evolution, a story about

  Ewing, Gen. Thomas

  Executive rating

  extracurricular activities (high school)

  extramarital affairs

  F4B fighters

  FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)

  Facts magazine

  Fall, Albert B.

  “False Dawn” (alternate title)

  “Fans are Slans” movement

  fantasy

  The Fantasy Film Works of George Pal (DVD) (to Introduction)

  Fantasy News fanzine

  Fantasy Press

  fanzines

  Farley, James A.

  Farnham’s Freehold

  fascism, Popular Front against

  fascist governments

  Black and “Red,”

  United Front against

  Fath, E. A., The Elements of Astronomy

  Fat Man

  FBI

  feminist theme

  fencing and swordplay, RAH’s

  Ferrer Modern Schools

  fiction, Victorian vs. Modernist

  film industry, opposition to Sinclair

  film making, packaging deals in

  Fink, Dr. David Harold

  Finnegan, Joseph

  Finney, Charles G., Circus of Dr. Lao

  “Fire Down Below,”

  Fiske, John

  Fitts, Burton

  Fitzsimmons Army Hospital, Denver

  slack treatment at

  “Flight into the Future” (article collaboration with Cal Laning)

  Flippin, Royce

  flying, RAH’s unfulfilled love of

  flying saucers

  food, world problem of

  football

  Ford, Henry

  Ford, John (movie director)

  Ford, John Anson

  Ford Instrument Company

  “Foreign Policy” (alternate title)

  Forensics (debate) squad

  Forman, Edward

  Fort, Charles

  Fort Clayton, Panama

  Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

  Fortune magazine

  Fort Worth, Texas

  For Us, the Living: A Comedy of Customs

  rejected

  Fourier, Charles

  Fowler, Virginia

  Fox Film Corporation

  Fox Movietone News

  Foy, Bryan

  France

  invaded by Germany (1940)

  mobilizes against Germany (1939)

  Frank, Raymond

  Frau im Mond

  free love, in stories

  Free masonry

  “Free Men,”

  Freethinker wing of the Democratic Party

  French and Spanish companies, at the Naval Academy

  frenching out (absent without leave)

  Fromm, Erich

  frontier

  Frontier Exposition (Fort Worth, 1936)

  Fuller, Buckminster

  Fuller, Edmund

  fundamentalism, RAH’s rejection of

  Future

  Future History series

  abridged collection proposal

  Future History chart

  hardcover proposal

  notes for

  See also history of the future

  Futuria Fantasia

  Futurians

  GALCIT (the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Cal Tech)

  gambling, on board ship

  Garmes, Lee

  Garrison, John and Alice

  gasoline rationing

  Gay, Hobart “Hap,”

  Geisel, Theodor Seuss (Dr. Seuss)

  General Order No.

  General Semantics

  General Services company theme

  General Tire

  genetics theme

  “Gentlemen, Be Seated,”

  George, Henry, Progress and Poverty

  German Rocket Society

  German scientists, in American rocketry

  Germany

  culture of, need to be destroyed, according to RAH

  invasion of France (1940)

  invasion of Poland (1939)

  invasion of Russia (1941)

  Nazi

  prison camps

  superweapons developed by

  germ theory

  Gernsback, Hugo

  Gerstenfeld, Virginia “Ginny” (3rd wife)

  accepted as “family member,”

  breakup with fiancé George Harris

  considers RAH’s marriage proposal, and accepts

  disappears

  emotional handling of separation from RAH

  fiancé George Harris

  flies to Colorado Springs to meet RAH

  goes to stay in New York without RAH

  goodbye to, at end of WWII

  helps RAH move

  house guest of the Heinleins

  influence on RAH’s politics

  kept a secret from close friends during wander year in trailer

  love letter to RAH

  love of cats

  in love with RAH

  marries RAH in New Mexico

  moves West to attend UCLA

  notes Leslyn’s drinking problem

  pet names for

  poem by

  politicization of

  recollections of Leslyn

  relationship with RAH

  separation from RAH on his D.C. and L.A. trips

  sexual relations

  skating prowess

  testing dilemma

  thyroid deficiency

  typing help to RAH

  Gettysburg Address

  ghosts

  ghostwriting

  by others, not RAH

  RAH uneasy about engaging in

  GI Bill

  Gifford, Jim, Robert A. Heinlein: A Reader’s Companion

  Gnostic Mass

  God

  Goddard, Robert

  The Gods of Mars (Burroughs)

  gods owning people theme

  Golden Age of science fiction

  Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1939)

  “Goldfish Bowl” (alternate title)

  Gold N

  Goldwater, Barry, The Conscience of a Conservative

  Gopher Hole (trailer)

  sold

  Gordon, Pierre

  “The Gostak Distims the Doshes,”

  Graf Zeppelin dirigible

  Grand Coulee Dam

  Grand Olympic Auditorium, EPIC campaign rally in

  Grant, Alan, Anarky graphic-novel series

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  grass-roots campaigns

  “gravity gauge” idea

  Gray, Allan “Gus,”

  Gray, Zane

  Great Depression

  Green, Edwin

  “The Green Hills of Earth,”

  title unconsciously appropriated from C. L. Moore

  Greenwich Village

  Greenwood Grammar School, Kansas City

  Gripsholm Swedish “mercy ship,”

  Groves, Leslie

  Guam

  Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

  guided-missile research

  “Gulf,”

  gunnery

  gunnery drills

  Gurney, Marshall Barton “Marsh,”

  Gymkhana at Naval Academy 1927 1928, last year

  Haggard, H. Rider

  Haight, Raymond

  Haiti

  Hall Brother
s Lithography

  Halley’s Comet

  Hallmark Cards

  Halsey, William F. “Bull,”

  “Ham and Eggs” old-age pension scheme

  Hamilton, Edmond

  Harding, Murphy & Tucker

  Harding, Warren G.

  Harlow, Jean

  Harriman, W. Averell

  Harris, George

  Harrison, James

  Harsanyi, Zsolt de, The Star Gazer: A Novel of the Life of Galileo

  Hart, William S.

  Harvard Classics

  Hawaii

  Hawkins, Augustus

  Hawkins, Lee (collaborator with E. E. Smith)

  Hawkins, Willard G.

  Hay, Ian, The First Hundred Thousand

  Hayakawa, S. I.

  Hayland, Mrs. Herbert

  Haymarket Riots

  Hays, Will

  Hayworth Hall (alternate title)

  hazing (at the Naval Academy)

  “Heil!”

  Heinlein, Alice Lewis (sister-in-law, married to Lawrence Lyle)

  Heinlein, Alma Ann (great-aunt)

  Heinlein, Bam (mother). See Lyle, Bam

  Heinlein, Clare. See Heinlein, Jesse Clare “Jay” (brother)

  Heinlein, Dorothy (wife of Jesse)

  Heinlein, Dorothy Martin

  Heinlein, Edward Ray (nephew)

  Heinlein, Elinor (RAH’s first wife). See Curry, Elinor

  Heinlein, Francis Marion “Frank” (great-uncle)

  Heinlein, Harvey Wallace (great-uncle)

  Heinlein, Jesse Clare “Jay” (brother)

  Heinlein, Jessie (great-aunt)

  Heinlein, Jessie Clare (aunt)

  Heinlein, Kitty (aunt)

  Heinlein, Lawrence (great-grandfather)

  Heinlein, Lawrence (great-uncle)

  Heinlein, Lawrence Lewis (“Bud”) (nephew)

  Heinlein, Lawrence Lyle (brother)

  enlisting in the Great War

  letter to

  marriage of

  and occupation of Japan

  rose to Major General rank

  second marriage of

  Heinlein, Lawrence Ray “Ray” (uncle)

  Heinlein, Leonard Smith (great-uncle)

  Heinlein, Leslyn MacDonald (second wife). See MacDonald, Leslyn

  Heinlein, Lorenz/Lawrence (great-great-great grandfather)

  Heinlein, Louise (sister)

  Heinlein, Mary Alice (great-aunt)

  Heinlein, Mary Jean (sister)

  Heinlein, Oscar Allen (great-uncle) to ch.

 

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