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Schlesinger

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by Richard Aldous


  Note: In the index, “AMS Jr.” refers to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Abramson, Rudy, 129, 156

  Abstract Expressionism, 144

  “academic” brain trust, of Kennedy administration, 205

  Acheson, Dean, 119, 136, 147–48, 243, 252–54, 261, 341

  Adams, Fred, 306

  Adams, Sherman, 363

  Adams House, 38, 58, 76, 274

  Addison’s disease, 321–22

  Adenauer, Konrad, 243

  “Adlai Wants a Munich” (Alsop and Bartlett), 300–301

  Advocate 39, 40, 52

  Affleck, Ben, 23

  Affluent Society, The (Galbraith), 166–67

  Afghanistan, war in, 378

  African Americans, 71–72

  Afrocentrism, 376

  Age of Business, 184–85

  Age of Jackson, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 12, 33, 89, 92, 100–108, 136, 167–68, 182–83, 191, 326–27, 374, 384, 386–87

  Age of Roosevelt, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 167–70, 173, 177, 182–205, 225, 273, 324–27, 340, 341, 352, 353, 355, 358, 371, 374–75, 377, 383, 387; See also specific volumes by name

  Air Force One, 298

  Aitken, Jonathan, 373

  Alabama National Guard, 303

  Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities (CUNY), 334, 371

  “Alexander Hamilton” (film), 39

  Alfredo’s restaurant, 278

  Allen, Peter (stepson), 369, 370, 373–74, 380–81

  Al Smith Memorial Dinner, JFK’s speech at, 212–13

  Alsop, Joseph, 114, 143, 148, 152, 206, 304, 342, 364

  Alsop, Stewart, 114–15, 152, 157, 300–301, 363

  Amateur Dramatic Club (ADC), 53

  American Academy of Arts and Letters, 109

  American Century, The, 144

  American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF), 148–49

  American Dream, 167

  American Historical Association, 13

  American Historical Review 12

  American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, The (Hofstadter), 101

  Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 122, 123, 156, 157, 169, 212

  American Student Union, 38–39, 116

  American University, JFK’s commencement address at, 297–98

  Amherst College, 309–10

  Anderson, Eugenie, 177

  Anderson, Marian, 73

  Anderson, Patrick, 225

  Animal Farm (Orwell), 134

  anti-Communism, 98, 134, 141–42, 145, 149

  Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter), 157, 385

  anti-Semitism, 14–17

  Appleby, Paul, 165

  Aptowitz, Arthur, 126–27

  Arendt, Hannah, 133, 149

  Argentina, 81, 275

  Arms Control agency, 309

  arms race, 355

  “Arthur Schlesinger Is Halfway Through His Book on Bobby and Enjoying His Life to the Hilt,” 371

  Asia First faction, 150

  As Thousands Cheer (Berlin and Hart), 39

  Athanasius, 191

  Atomic Energy Commission, 260

  atomic spies, 120

  Ayer, A. J., 141, 143

  Bacall, Lauren, 162

  Bailey, David, 108

  Bailey, Orville T., 58

  Bailyn, Bernard, 125

  Baker, Richard Brown, 88

  Ball, George, 152, 165, 284

  Banaras, India, 31

  Bancroft, Clara (grandmother), 37, 64

  Bancroft, Elizabeth, See Schlesinger, Elizabeth Bancroft

  Bancroft, George, 6, 59–61, 107–8, 385

  Bancroft Prize, 188

  Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Hamilton), 101

  Barber, Benjamin, 374

  Barkley, Alben W., 153, 155

  Barnes, Tracey, 234–35

  Barr, Alfred, 144

  Bartlett, Charles, 300–301

  Bartlett, Robert, 191

  Barton, Bruce, 185

  baseball, 20–21

  Battle of the Bulge, 91

  “Battle Stations for All” (pamphlet), 73

  Baxter, James Phinney, III, 36, 76, 102

  Bay of Pigs, 229–45, 265, 266, 268, 271, 289, 296, 363–64, 388

  Beard, Charles, 10–13, 18, 101, 189, 385

  Becker, Carl, 189

  Beethoven, Ludwig van, 142

  Beijing, China, 29

  Bell, Daniel, 149, 287

  Bell, David, 157, 159

  Bemis, Samuel Flagg, 206

  Benesch, Alfred A., 15

  Bentham, Jeremy, 198

  Bentley, Elizabeth, 80, 117, 120

  Benton, Corning, 23

  Berenson, Bernard, 109

  Berkeley, Busby, 44

  Berle, Adolf A., 168, 240, 340

  Berlin, Germany, 141, 275, 277, 278, 281, 299; See also Berlin crisis

  Berlin, Irving, 39

  Berlin, Isaiah, 35, 125, 145, 197, 228, 366

  Berlin airlift, 141

  Berlin crisis, 251–58, 268, 271, 317, 388

  Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, 142

  Berlin Wall, 257, 279

  Bernstein, Barton J., 200, 385

  Bernstein, Carl, 364

  Berry, Pamela, 197

  Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 224

  Bethe, Hans, 259

  Bethesda Naval Hospital, 1

  Bethune-Cookman College, 73

  Biebrich, Germany, 96

  Billings, Lem, 205

  Birmingham civil rights campaign, 302–6

  Birnbaum, Norman, 145

  Bismarck, Otto von, 61

  Bissell, Richard, 165, 247

  Bitter Heritage, The 342, 345

  Black, Hugo L., 111, 112

  Black and White Ball, 343

  blacklist, 118

  Blair, William M., Jr., 170, 173

  Blair House, 152

  Bletchley Park, 51

  Blum, John Morton, 319, 327, 341

  Blum, Léon, 132

  Bobby Van’s Steakhouse (New York City), 380–81

  Bogart, Humphrey, 162

  Bohlen, Charles, 129, 255, 378

  Bolivia, 80–81

  Bologna, Italy, 242–43

  Boone, Joel, 21

  Boston Botanical Gardens, 19

  Boston Brahmins, 12, 16

  Boston City Council, 14

  Boston Evening Globe 366

  Boston Pops Orchestra, 303

  Boston Red Sox, 19–20

  Bowdoin College, 17

  Bowdoin Prize, 47

  Bowles, Chester, 165, 220, 242, 264, 265, 282–83

  Bowra, Maurice, 197

  Bradlee, Ben, 224, 228, 277, 322, 330

  “brain trust,” 164, 168, 205, 212, 321, 340

  Branch, Taylor, 386, 387, 388

  Brandeis, Louis, 200

  Brandt, Willy, 278

  Brewer, John, 25–26

  Bridenbaugh, Carl, 225

  Brinkley, Alan, 201

  Brinton, Crane, 18

  Britain, 119–20, 340–41

  Brogan, Denis, 201

  Brokaw, Tom, 67

  Brooks, Paul, 330

  Brooks, Van Wyck, 92

  Brown, David S., 387

  Brown, Harold, 259

  Brownson, Orestes, 45–46, 105, 116–17, 132, 337

  Brown v. Board of Education 385

  Brubach, Holly, 131

  Bruce, David, 131

  Bryan, William Jennings, 181

  Bryant, William Cullen, 103

  Buchan, John, 47

  Buck, Paul H., 18, 41–42, 47, 65, 102, 160

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 216, 301–2, 364

  Buddhism, 269

  Bundy, McGeorge “Mac”

  as advisor to AMS Jr., 273, 308

  after JFK’s assassination, 311

  army service of, 76

  and Bay of Pigs, 233, 235, 239, 241

  and Berlin Crisis, 253


  in Cuban missile crisis, 288, 289

  and JFK’s civil rights speech, 304

  in Kennedy administration, 205, 269, 285, 286, 298, 299

  and Henry Kissinger, 256, 258

  as national security advisor, 218

  office location of, 222–23

  at Office of War Information, 69

  and test ban talks, 261, 262

  visit with JFK at Cambridge, 220

  Buñuel, Luis, 381

  Burgess, Guy, 80

  Burke, Robert E., 194–95, 201

  Burnham, James, 142

  Burns, James MacGregor, 331, 357–58

  Burstyn, Harold, 127, 143

  Burton, Harold H., 111

  Bush, George W., 378

  “Business and Government: A Historian’s View” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 287

  Byrd, Harry F., 73

  Byrnes, James F., 147

  California Law Review 112–13

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, 14–19, 29, 124, 219–20, 338, 339

  Cambridge High and Latin School, 21–23

  Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, 23

  Cambridge Union, 54

  Cambridge University, 49, 51–53, 95, 96, 197

  “Camelot” (Life magazine article), 313

  Cameron, Angus, 134

  Cannon, Marian, See Schlesinger, Marian Cannon

  Cannon, Walter Bradford, 44, 99

  Cannon, Wilma, 68

  Cape Canaveral, Florida, 288

  Capote, Truman, 331, 343

  Caro, Robert, 380

  Carter, Jimmy, 371

  Casey, William J., 89, 92

  Castro, Fidel, 229–31, 235–36, 289, 362–63

  Castro, Raul, 288

  CBS TV Morning News, 329

  Cecil, David, 206

  Center (politics), 133; See also Vital Center, The

  Center for the Advanced Study of History (CASH), 315

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 76–77, 97, 141, 144–46, 229–36, 246–48, 266–67, 288, 289

  Century Association, 370, 377, 389

  Chamberlain, Neville, 51

  Chambers, Whittaker, 110, 147, 148

  Channing, Edward, 14

  Chappaquiddick incident, 324, 351

  “Charm and Bourbons,” 196

  Charter Day speech (Berkeley, 1962), 285–86

  Chauncey, Henry, 28, 35

  Chayes, Abram, 254, 269

  Chestnut Lodge, 307

  Cheston, Charles S., 92

  Chicago Sun-Times 210

  Chicago Tribune 158

  Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, The (Niebuhr), 136

  China, 29–31, 150, 282

  Christian realism, 136

  Christian Science Monitor 329

  Christie, Julie, 333

  Churchill, Winston, 90, 91, 327, 365

  Cicero, 27

  Citizen Kane (film), 64

  Citizens Council, 310

  City University of New York (CUNY), 334, 336, 341, 343, 371, 377

  civil rights legislation, 303–6

  Civil Service Commission, 75

  Clark, Ramsey, 361

  Clarke, Thurston, 348

  Cleveland, L. L., 22

  Clifford, Clark, 115

  Clinton, Bill, 140, 190, 373, 386, 387

  Clinton, Hillary, 361

  Clinton Tapes, The (Branch), 386

  Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War (Winks), 77

  Cocteau, Jean, 54

  Codevilla, Angelo, 378

  Cohen, Andrew, 304–5

  Cold War, 141–42, 145, 163, 251–52, 254–55, 261, 279, 297, 341, 355; See also Bay of Pigs; Berlin crisis; Cuban missile crisis; Soviet Union

  Cole, Donald B., 102

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 6

  Colonial Merchants and the American Revolution, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.), 10, 11, 13

  Columbia Law School, 77

  Columbia school, 189

  Columbia University, 7, 11, 17, 18, 100

  Columbia University Press, 10

  Columbus, Ohio, 7–9

  Comden, Betty, 377

  Coming of the New Deal, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 182, 192–96, 204–5, 245–46

  Commager, Henry Steele, 55–56, 169, 193–95, 210

  Commentary, 139

  Commonwealth Fund Lectures, 195–98

  Communism and Communists; See also anti-Communism

  accusations of going “soft” on, 342

  and American liberals, 133

  AMS Jr.’s views of, 51, 116–20

  in Cuba, 229, 235–36

  and cultural freedom, 148–49

  FDR’s disavowals of, 83

  front groups, 75

  in Italy, 249–50

  and JFK’s Vietnam policy, 269, 270, 282

  national debate over, 118–21

  and non-Communist Left, 116, 120–23

  and pluralism, 285

  and Progressive Citizens of America, 123

  R&A infiltration by, 82

  Communist Party, 117–19, 121, 147

  Conan Doyle, Arthur, 32

  Conant, James Bryant, 35, 43

  confirmation bias, 181

  “Conflict of Ideas in Jacksonian Democracy” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 66

  Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), 141–46

  Conklin, Paul, 200

  containment policy, 119

  cookout test, 157

  Coolidge, Calvin, 185, 202

  Coolidge, Harold Jefferson, 90

  Coolidge and the Historians (Silvers), 202

  Cooper, James Fenimore, 103

  Coors, Adolph, III, 25

  Corcoran, Tommy, 72

  Cornell University, 5

  Corriere della Sera (newspaper), 243

  Coughlin, Father, 198, 199

  Counterintelligence (X-2), 77

  Cox, Archibald, 212

  Craig, G. M., 187, 188, 194

  Crimson 315

  Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1931, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 166, 169, 173, 182–91, 206, 287, 384

  Crossman, Richard, 243

  Cuba, 229–36, 275, 276; See also Bay of Pigs; Cuban missile crisis

  Cuban missile crisis, 276, 288–96, 300–301, 355–56, 363

  Cuban Revolutionary Council, 240

  cultural freedom, 148–49

  Culture of the Cold War, The (Whitfield), 119

  culture wars, 375–77

  Cummings, E. E., 23

  Cunliffe, Marcus, 337

  Cushing, Lily Emmet, 368

  Cycles of American History, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 106, 323, 337, 374–75

  Czechoslovakia, 51, 56–57

  Daily News 293

  Daily Worker 80, 81, 118

  Dallek, Robert, 237, 267, 322

  Damon, Matt, 23

  Dark Side of Camelot, The (Hersh), 322

  Daughters of the American Revolution, 73

  Davis, Elmer, 74, 75

  Davis, John W., 156, 186

  Davis, Norman, 192

  Dean, Arthur, 262

  Death of a President, The (Manchester), 352

  Defense Department, 270, 283–84, 308

  De Gaulle, Charles, 90

  democracy, and totalitarianism, 137–38

  Democratic Party, 82, 152, 164–65, 179–81, 186, 317–18

  convention of 1952, 153–55

  convention of 1956, 175–76

  convention of 1960, 204, 211, 300

  convention of 1972, 351

  convention of 1980, 372

  convention of 1992, 372, 373

  midterm elections (1954), 171

  primary (1956), 174–75

  de Neufville, Lawrence, 142, 145

  Denfeld, Louis, 84

  Deutsch, Harold, 85

  DeVoto, Bernard, 42–43, 48, 66, 73, 75, 86, 89, 101, 102, 134, 135

  Dewey, Thomas A., 82

  Dickinson, Angie, 272

  Diem, Ngo Dinh, 269, 272,
309

  Dillon, Douglas, 217, 267, 315

  Disuniting of America, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 375–77

  “Divide and Conquer” (pamphlet), 69

  Dobbs, Michael, 362–63

  Dobrynin, Anatoly, 363

  Donovan, William “Wild Bill” J., 76–77

  Douglas, William O., 111, 112

  Drew Pearson Comments (radio show), 84

  Drum, Kevin, 378

  Du Bois, W. E. B., 15

  Duggan, Laurence, 81, 82

  Dukakis, Michael, 373

  Duke, David, 376

  Dulles, Allen, 231–32, 247, 266

  Dungan, Ralph, 220–21

  Duvalier, François, 275

  Earle, Jonathan H., 104

  East Wing (White House), 222–23

  Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA), 128

  Economic Interpretation of the Constitution (Beard), 10–11

  Economist 378

  Edison, Thomas A., 18

  Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), 378

  eggheads, 157–58

  Egmont overture (Beethoven), 142

  Egypt, 30

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., and administration

  AMS Jr.’s support for, in 1948, 127

  Cuba action planned by, 229–30

  heart attack and health of, 172–73, 177–79

  middle way of, 165–66

  popularity of, 163

  presidential campaign of 1952, 152, 153, 155–57, 161, 162, 167

  presidential campaign of 1956, 170–73, 177–78

  presidential papers of, 226

  on RFK’s qualifications for president, 358–59

  and test ban talks, 258–59

  Vietnam policy of, 269

  Eliot, T. S., 39, 188–89, 214

  Eliot House, 38, 55, 58

  Elks Club Group, 159–60, 177

  Elsey, George, 337

  Embers of War, The (Logevall), 270

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 169

  Emmet, Robert, 369

  Encounter magazine, 138, 145

  Establishment, the, 95, 276–77, 350–51, 361

  European Political Report 88

  Evans, Allan, 97

  EXCOMM meetings, 289–90, 355–56

  Exeter, New Hampshire, 24

  Exonian school newspaper, 24

  Fairbank, John King, 68–69

  Fairbank, Wilma, 115

  Fallows, James, 371, 372

  Fanfani, Amintore, 248–49

  Farrell, James, 148, 149

  Faulkner, William, 189

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 83–84

  Feldman, Mike, 205

  Fenway Park, 19–20

  Ferguson, John, 147

  Ferguson, Niall, 109, 257

  Feurle, Katharine, 7, 16

  Fiedler, Arthur, 303

  Finegold, Kenneth, 201

  Finletter, Thomas, 164, 173

  Finletter Group, 164–67, 178

  Finnegan, James A., 177

  First New Deal, 201

  Fisher, John, 157

  flu pandemic, 8–9

  Food for Peace, 228–29, 274, 276

  Football Hall of Fame speech, 267

 

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