Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 354, 356, 387
Lincoln, Evelyn, 224, 226, 303–5
Lindley, Ernest K., 74
Link, Arthur S., 206
Lions Club, 14
Lippmann, Walter, 116, 118, 123
Little, Brown, 48, 65, 89, 100, 134
Lodge, George Cabot, 127
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Jr., 73
Loeb, James, 169
Logevall, Fredrik, 270
London, England, 32, 51, 83–90, 97–98, 195–98, 299, 341
Long, Huey, Jr., 198–200
Lord, Walter, 89, 90
Lovett, Robert, 291
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence, 14
Lowell, Robert, 35, 361
“Loyal Keeper of the Kennedy Flame,” 190
“Loyalty Order,” 121, 147
Luce, Henry, 110, 144
Ma, Y. C., 31
Maas, Peter, 361
MacArthur, Douglas, 150–51
MacDonald, Heather, 376
Macmillan, 10
Macmillan, Harold, 245, 262–63
Madison, James, 387
Madison Square Garden, 161
Maguire, Albert, 21
Mailer, Norman, 39, 118, 302
Making of the President (White), 205
Manchester, William, 352
Manhattan Project, 82
Manicheanism, 191
Mao Tse Tung, 354
Marbury, William L., 147–48
Marcuse, Herbert, 349, 351
Mark, Edward, 124
Marsden, George, 120
Marshall, Burke, 352–53
Marshall, S. L. A., 151
Marshall Plan, 83, 127, 131–32, 145
Martin, John Bartlow, 157, 159, 165, 171, 175, 177–79, 212–13, 309, 335
Marxism, 116–17, 122, 141, 142
Massachusetts Historical Society, 61, 313
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 15
Mather, Cotton, 42
Matter of Fact column, 114
Matthiessen, F. O., 45, 116, 118, 125
Max (family dog), 9–10
May, Ernest, 383
McCarthy, Eugene, 345–47, 361
McCarthy, Joseph, 148, 158, 207, 320, 350, 359
McCarthy, Mary, 149
McCarthyism, 121, 146–49, 178, 207, 215, 251
McClellan, George, 150
McCloy, John, 262, 265, 291, 292
McCone, John, 248, 266–67, 288
McGovern, George, 228–29, 274, 276, 351
McIntyre, Alfred, 134
McKinley, William, 354
McLuhan, Marshall, 346–47
McNamara, Robert, 2, 239–40, 255, 270, 283
McPherson, Nelson, 88
“meatballs,” 36
melting pot, 375, 376
Menand, Louis, 77
Mencken, H. L., 168
Merk, Frederick, 17, 18, 65
Merriman, R. B., 41
Merry, Robert, 186
Metropolitan Club, 150
Mexican-American War, 61
Meyer, Cord, 149
Meyer, Eugene, 109, 115, 171
Meyer, Katharine, 115. See also Graham, Katharine
Meyer, Mary Pinchot, 322
Middlekauff, Robert, 42
“middle way,” 165–66
Mill, John Stuart, 375
Miller, Edward, 147
Miller, Henry, 39
Miller, Perry, 42–43, 45, 46, 55, 56, 63, 96, 125, 135, 189
Mob, the, 360
Moley, Raymond, 168
Molina, Rafael Trujillo, 265
Moon, Parker, 18
Moon, Soviet–US joint expedition to, 308–9
Moore, G. E., 54
Morgan, Edmund S., 3, 42, 386
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 12, 18, 42, 55, 63, 125–26, 132
Morris, Edmund, 388
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 377
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain (Kaplan), 340
Munich Agreement, 51
Murphy, Frank, 111, 113
Murrow, Edward R., 260, 262
Museum of Modern Art, 144
Nabokov, Nicolas, 143–45
Nabokov, Vladimir, 143
Naftali, Timothy, 236
National Academy of Sciences, 309
National Archives, 311
National Book Award, 333, 361–62
National Enquirer school of biographers, 281, 323, 324
National Experience, The (Woodward and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.), 384
National Humanities Medal, 190
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (NRM), 80–81
National Recovery Administration, 192
Nature and Destiny of Man (Niebuhr), 136
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, 290
Nazi propaganda, 78
Nazism, 31–32, 81
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 272
Nenni, Pietro, 249
Nero, 321
Neusner, Jacob, 56
Neustadt, Richard, 221
Nevins, Allan, 100–101
New American, The (Stevenson), 179
New Deal, 38–39, 53, 69, 73, 82, 103–4, 122–23, 166, 167, 169, 193–95, 198–202, 294
New Directions (Laughlin, editor), 35, 39
New England Journal of Medicine 172
New England Quarterly, The 58, 61, 65
New Frontier, 161, 165, 294, 334, 342
New Historians and New History, 17, 189
New History, The (Robinson), 11
New Left, 200, 349–51, 357, 385
Newman, Arnold, 144
Newman, Phyllis, 377
New Republic magazine, 101, 102
Newsweek 211–12, 333
New Viewpoints in American History (Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.), 10–13, 17, 106–7, 337
New York City, 21, 114, 342–43, 350, 367–68
New York Daily News 158
New York Downtown Hospital, 381
New York Herald Tribune 114
New York Review of Books 104, 357, 362, 367, 375
New York State, 164
New York Times 14, 15, 45, 55–56, 101, 102, 123, 130, 132–33, 139, 140, 144, 145, 158, 215, 232, 266, 285, 304, 318, 329, 357, 362, 373, 384
New York Times Book Review 100, 139, 331
New York Times Magazine 294, 342
New York Yankees, 20
Nichols, John, 322
Nichols, Louis B., 128
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 118, 122, 134–38, 156, 171, 353, 379–80
Niebuhr, Ursula, 135, 156
Nieuw Amsterdam (cruise ship), 50
9/11 attacks, 379–80
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 133
Nitze, Paul, 119, 165
Nixon, Richard
AMS Jr.’s assessment of, 214, 215
as AMS Jr.’s neighbor, 373–74
in Imperial Presidency 353, 356–57
“middle way” for, 166
presidential campaign of 1960, 213–16
and RFK, 363
and Soviet containment, 119
vice-presidential campaign of 1956, 172, 176, 178
Nock, Arthur, 55
non-Communist Left, 116, 120–23, 132–33, 142, 299, 350
non-Fascist Right, 132–33
Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (Edward T. James, editor), 37
“Not left, not right” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 120
nuclear testing, 258–66, 296–99
Nuechterlein, James, 138
Oates, Stephen B., 362
objectivity, 343
O’Brien, Lawrence “Larry,” 205, 267, 347
O’Brien, Patrick D., 185
O’Casey, Sean, 40
O’Donnell, Kenny, 205, 267, 277, 299, 311, 347, 359
Office of Facts and Figures, 74
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 36, 76–83, 88, 89, 91–98, 117, 135, 146
Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI), 76
Office of War Information (OWI), 67–70, 73–7
6, 78, 80, 83
Ohio State University (OSU), 6, 8, 9, 11
“Old Politics and the New, The” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 346–47
Onyx Club, 85
Operation Mongoose, 289
Oppenheimer, Robert, 82
Ordeal of Power (Hughes), 228
Orestes A Brownson: A Pilgrim’s Progress (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 46, 54–56, 65, 191, 386
“Orestes Brownson: An American Marxist before Marx” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 116–17
Organization of American States (OAS), 81, 274–76
Origins of Totalitarianism, The (Arendt), 133
Orwell, George, 133, 134
Osborn, George C., 194
OWI Library, 98
Oxford University, 13, 35, 52, 95–96, 197
Page, Arthur, 190
Pan-American Union, 81
Panic of 1837, 47
Paris, France, 32, 89–94
Paris Peace Conference (1919), 269
Parker, Carey, 372
Parker, Richard, 284
Parkman Prize, 188
Parmet, Herbert, 297
Parrot, Thomas, 277
Partisan Review 119
Pascal, Blaise, 136
Path to the Present (Arthur Schlesinger, Sr.), 336
Paulding, James Kirke, 103
Paz, Victor, 229
Peabody Elementary School, 21
Pearl Harbor attack, 67, 355
Pearson, Drew, 84
Peel, Robert, 206
Peñaranda, Enrique, 80–81
Pensées (Pascal), 136
People magazine, 371
Perry, Lewis, 27
“personal” brain trust, of Kennedy administration, 205
Peterhouse, 135
Philadelphia Inquirer 329
Phillips Exeter Academy, 23–28, 38, 84
Plimpton, Francis, 235
Plumb, J. H., 364
pluralism, 285–86
Podhoretz, Norman, 189
“Political Culture in the United States” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 120
politics
AMS Jr.’s love of, 216
change in machinations of, 204
new kind of, 132–33
Politics of Hope, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 342
Politics of Upheaval, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 182, 198–203, 210
Polk, James K., 61, 294
Pollock, Jackson, 144
Poore, Charles, 139, 330
Popular Front, 38–39, 116, 118
Porterhouse Blue (Sharpe), 52
Potsdam Conference (1945), 129
Potter, David M., 385
Pound, Ezra, 39
Powers, Dave, 205, 267, 281, 299
Powers, Hiram, 103
Prescott, Orville, 100, 187, 188, 194, 201
presentism, 327
presidential election(s)
of 1952, 149–62
of 1960, 210–13
of 1964, 327
presidential power, 354–57
“President Kennedy’s Adrenals” (Nichols), 322
Pringle, Henry, 67, 69–71, 73, 74
“Problem of Richard Hildreth, The” (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 59–60
Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 206–8, 314, 316
Progressive Citizens of America (PCA), 123
Progressive politics, 191, 318–19
Progressive school of history, 385–86
propaganda war, 264
Publishers Weekly 301
Pulitzer Prize, 102, 182, 388
Punta del Este, 274–76
Pusey, Nathan, 272, 273
PW Weekly 78–79, 81, 82
Quai President Wilson 32
qualitative liberalism, 166–67
Queen Elizabeth RMS, 85
Question of Character, A (Reeves), 322
race relations, 71–73
Radcliffe College, 64, 367
radicalism, 158
Rahv, Philip, 119
Randall, James G., 136–37
Ranke, Leopold von, 12
Ransom, John Crowe, 35
Raskin, Hyman, 177
Rauh, Joseph, 149, 151, 169, 171, 191, 210
Reagan, Ronald, 36, 89, 118, 238, 364, 374
Reed, Ishmael, 376
Reed, Stanley F., 111, 113
Reedy, George, 313
Reeves, Richard, 387
Reeves, Rosser, 161
Reign of Business, 1920-1933, The (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 168
Reinhardt, Frederick, 250
Republican Party, 172, 211
Research and Analysis (R&A), 77–85, 88, 90, 92, 95, 97, 98
Resnais, Alain, 280
Reston, James “Scotty,” 244–45, 255–56
Reuther, Walter, 294
revisionist historians, 202, 341
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 96
Ribuffo, Leo P., 118
Richards, I. A., 54
Richmond Times-Dispatch 329
Riesman, David, 219
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 229
Rise of American Democracy, The (Wilentz), 104–5
Ritchie, Albert, 186
Road to Reunion, The, 1865-1900 (Buck), 41
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 133
Robert Frost Library, JFK’s speech at groundbreaking of, 309–10
Robert Kennedy and His Times (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.), 352–53, 357–65, 371, 373, 386, 387
Robinson, James Harvey, 11, 17, 18
Roche, John P., 326
Rodgers, Daniel T., 364
Rome, Italy, 275, 278, 281
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 72–73, 122, 158, 360
Roosevelt, Franklin, Jr., 115, 122
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 2, 47, 323, 364; See also Age of Roosevelt, The
advisors to, 245–46
affirmative government of, 181
in Age of Jackson 103, 104, 182
character of, 187, 191–92
and Communists, 82
and William “Wild Bill” Donovan, 77
and Eleanor, 360
election of, 216
foreign policy of, 197
at Harvard, 38
inauguration of, 183–84
as intellectual, 214
JFK as admirer of, 204–5
Office of War Information established by, 68
political engagement of, 164
popularity of, 178
power of, 355, 387
presidential campaign of 1940, 151
and race relations, 72
as “the President,” 167
in Victory magazine, 73
wartime pamphlets as propaganda for, 69
Roosevelt, Theodore, 38, 45, 183, 294, 354
Roper, Hugh Trevor, 109, 142
Rosen, Philip, 185
Rosenberg, Ethel, 120
Rosenberg, Julius, 120
Rosenman, Samuel, 168, 372
Rositzke, Harry, 97
Ross, Irwin, 139
Rostow, Walt, 250, 270–71, 298
Rousmaniere, Jimmy, 205
Rovere, Richard, 150–51, 222
Rowe, James, 177
Rusk, Dean, 233–34, 236–37, 239–40, 250–51, 255–56, 262, 270, 275, 276, 291, 293, 299, 300, 328, 329
Russell, Richard, Jr., 153
Ruth, Babe, 20
Rutledge, Wiley B., 111
St. Louis, Missouri, 161
St. Simeon Stylites (Sladen-Smith), 53
Salinger, Pierre, 222, 223, 265, 302, 312
Salt Lake Tribune 329
Samuelson, Paul, 15
Sanders, Bernard, 361
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 142
Saturday Review 335
Saunders, Frances Stonor, 144, 146
Savoy Grill, 87
Scarface (film), 27
Schlesinger, Alexandra Emmet (second wife), 367–70, 373
Schlesinger, Andrew (son), 131, 339, 341, 367
Schlesinger, Arthur Bancroft, See Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.; See also specific works, e.g.: Age of Jackson, The
abrasive behavior of, 125–26
as action-intellectual, 388–89
advisors to, 135, 174–75
“alcoholic duty” tour of, 70–71
alliances of, 269
ambivalence toward Harvard, 66–67
anti-Communism of, 98, 134
and Bay of Pigs, 230–41
birth of, 5
at Cambridge High and Latin School, 21–23
at Cambridge University, 49, 51–54, 96
and Marian Cannon, 6, 21–22, 28, 29, 43–46, 49–50, 53–54, 62–64, 66, 68, 71, 85–91, 93–95, 97–100, 109, 110, 115, 124–26, 131, 197, 210–11, 216, 267, 275, 278–79, 281, 337–41, 343, 366–68
as child in Cambridge, 14, 18–21
as child in Midwest, 9–10, 13–14
and CIA, 145–46
and Communism, 116–20, 123
Congress for Cultural Freedom, 141–46
“Cook’s tour” of, 29–34
on cooperation with Soviet Union, 131–32
courted by Democratic hopefuls, 209
criticism of, 190–91
in Cuban missile crisis, 289–90
death of, 380–81
declassification of documents written by, 363–64
departure from Harvard, 272–74
diary of, 21, 29, 32–34, 42, 50, 52, 62, 150, 167, 244, 265, 267, 290, 293, 294, 298, 303, 311, 317, 339, 346, 348, 361, 372
on draft of Profiles in Courage 207
drinking habits, 1, 10, 63, 70, 87, 92, 96, 196, 268, 303, 371
and election of 1952, 149–62
and family, 335–40, 366–70
and father, 6–29, 31, 37, 42, 48, 49, 55, 56, 64–66, 75, 85
and FDR, 103, 104
as film buff, 27, 39, 64, 280
in Finletter Group, 164–67
and the “Georgetown set,” 114–16
in Germany, 96–97
and Averell Harriman, 127–30, 153–54
as Harvard egghead, 5
Harvard professorship of, 108–9, 124–27
as Harvard undergraduate, 36–50
and Alger Hiss, 147–48
as historian-participant, 384–89
historical scholarship of, 386–87
on his wartime experience, 100
impact of Niebuhr on, 134–38
infancy and early childhood, 8–9
Jackson project of, 61–66, 89, 92
on Jewish heritage, 16
and JFK’s civil rights address, 305–6
as JFK’s liaison with intellectuals, 287–88
as JFK’s liaison with Stevenson, 265–66, 288, 291, 300–301, 308
as JFK’s speechwriter, 212–13, 284–88, 296–310, 371, 372
during JFK’s visit to Cambridge, 219–20
in Johnson administration, 312–14
journal of, 50, 57
on judgments of history, 294–95
Kennedys’ support for, 316–17
Victor Lasky’s attack on, 215–16
legacy of JFK as responsibility of, 311–32
love of political battles, 216
and McCarthyism, 146–49
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