Fireflies (S. Naipaul), 224
Firing Line (TV), 137–38
First Amendment, 54, 87, 89, 106, 107, 110, 112, 288
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 171
Flanders and Swann, 43
Flaubert, Gustave, 151, 167
Fleming, Ian, 97–103
Casino Royale, 99, 102
Diamonds Are Forever, 97, 98
Dr. No, 99
For Your Eyes Only, 101, 103
“From a View to Kill,” 103
From Russia with Love, 100
State of Excitement (unpubl.), 97
You Only Live Twice, 98, 101
Flowers, Gennifer, 213
Fonda, Henry, 134
Foner, Eric, 82
Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint, The, (Hauptmann), 275
Foote, Paul, 57
Ford, Gerald R., 200, 201
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 107–8, 111
Foreign Policy, “Colin Powell: Powell Valediction,” 251–59
Forman, Miloš, 147
Forrestal, Mike, 199
Forster, E. M., 23, 93
A Passage to India, 204, 205, 206, 207
Forster, John, 295
For Your Eyes Only (Fleming), 101, 103
Four Seasons Biltmore resort, Santa Barbara, 172–75
Fourth Amendment, 106, 112
Fowles, John, 81
Foxman, Abraham, 125
Fox News, 89
Franco, Francisco, 315–16
Franken, Al, 43
Franklin, Benjamin, 84–85, 88, 111, 113
Freddoso, David, The Case Against Barack Obama, 229–34
Freedom Defense Committee, 23
Freeman, John, 136
French, Patrick, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul, 217–24
Freud, Sigmund, 41, 94
Friedman, Kinky, 80
“From a View to Kill” (Fleming), 103
From Russia with Love (Fleming), 100
Frost, David, 136
Frost, Martin, 173, 175
Fyvel, T. R., 318n
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 66
Gallipoli, 36, 153
Galloway, George, 102
Gandhi, Indira, 135
Gandhi, Mohandas K. (Mahatma), 80–81, 207
Garbo, Greta, 151
García Márquez, Gabriel, 5–6
“Operation Carlota,” 6
Gates, Robert, 127, 128
Gati, Charles, Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt, 141–46
Gehlen, Reinhard, 117
Gellhorn, Martha, 2
Gellner, Ernest, 24
Genovese, Eugene and Elizabeth, 82
Gentile, Giovanni, 274
George V, king of England, 92
George Orwell Diaries, 311–20
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations (Howell), 153–58
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 84
Giancana, Sam, 2
Gingrich, Newt, 270–71
G. K. Chesterton: A Biography (Ker), 299–310
Glezos, Manolis, 238
“God Bless the USA” (song), 76
Goering, Hermann, 276
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 275
Goldstein, Baruch, 161
Goldstein, Cary, 186
Goldwater, Barry, 72
Gombrich, E. H., 27
Gonzales, Alberto, 113
Goodbye to a River (Graves), 81
Good Fight, The: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again (Beinart), 115–21
Good Soldier Schweik, The (Hašek), 39
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 119
Gordimer, Nadine, 223
Gore, Al, 50, 120, 213, 225, 226, 227
GQ, 253
Granma, 10, 166
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 232
Graves, John, Goodbye to a River, 81
Great Britain
Arab Bureau of, 154
Communist Party in, 21, 22–23, 24, 27
Empire of, 92, 141–46, 156, 203–9
General Strike (1926), 302
and India, see India
MI5 and MI6, 100
Great Leap Forward (China), 13
Greenbrier resort, White Sulphur Springs, 76–77
Greene, Graham, 81
Stamboul Train, 160
Greenwood, Lee, 76
Guantanamo Bay, 226
Guatemala
coup in, 9–10
Guevara in, 8–10
Guerrillas (Naipaul), 221
Guerrilla Warfare (Guevara), 7
Guevara, Ernesto Che, 1–18
cult of, 3–5, 17–18
death of, 3–4, 6, 7, 15–17
early years of, 6–7
Guerrilla Warfare, 7
health of, 6–7, 15
as internationalist, 7–11, 13–15
in later years, 14–16, 17
leper colonies visited by, 5
medical training of, 5, 7, 8, 9, 160
The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America, 5, 7–16
rationalizations by, 11–12
sense of humor in, 14
wife and children of, 7
writings of, 6
“Guide to Finnegans Wake, A” (Wilson), 165
Guillén, Nicolás, 6
Habibi, Emile, Saeed the Pessoptimist, 29, 117
Haile Selassie, 135
Hale, Patricia, 218, 222
Halliburton, 120
Hamdi, Yaser Esam, 108, 109
Hamilton, Alexander, 73
Hamilton, Ian, 177–78
Hamilton, Lee, 128
Hanley, Jennifer, 211
Hardy, Oliver, 93
Hariri, Rafik, 266, 267
Harriman, Averall, 198, 202
Harvard Law Review, 233
Hašek, Jaroslav, The Good Soldier Schweik, 39
Hastings, Warren, 203
Hauptmann, Gerhart, The Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint, 275
Havel, Václev, 24
“Haw-Haw, Lord” (Joyce), 93
Hayden, Michael, 110
Hayes, Rutherford B., 45
Hazlitt, William, 149
health care, 159–62, 245
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 142, 148
Heidegger, Martin, 274
Heine, Heinrich, 149, 151
Heller, Joseph, 65
Hemingway, Ernest, 2
Henry VIII, king of England, 309
Hercules, 267–68
Herero tribe, 276
Hero of Our Time, A (Lermontov), 57–62
Herzl, Theodor, 124
Herzog, Werner, 5
Hezbollah, 128, 265–68
Hikmet, Nâzim, 34
Hill, Christopher, 91
Hillary, Sir Edmund, 211–12
Hippocratic principles, 159–61
Hirohito, Emperor (Japan), 206
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan, 150, 193–98
Infidel, 195
History Boys, The (Bennett), 141
Hitler, Adolf, 117, 149, 150, 238, 308–9, 318
and Catholicism, 309
Mein Kampf, 274
Soviet alliance with, 21, 115, 116
and Spanish Civil War, 314
Hoffman, Abbie, 200
Hoggart, Richard, 313
Hoggart, Simon, 181
Homer, Odyssey, 164
Hooters, 76
Hoover, J. Edgar, 110
Hopkinson, Tom, 315
House for Mr. Biswas, A (Naipaul), 220
Howe, Julia Ward, 116
Howell, Georgina, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations, 153–58
“How to Write about Lenin—and How Not To” (MacIntyre), 148–49
Huch, Ricarda, 150
Hudis, Peter, 273
Hughes, Karen, 107
Hull, Blair, 230
Humphrey, Hubert H., 116
Hungari
an Revolt (1956), 141, 142–46, 202
Hussein, Saddam, 49, 254
and Bush (H. W.) administration, 120, 128–29, 213, 226
connections of, 37, 102, 123
and Iran, 129
and Kuwait, 119
opposition to, 105, 120, 129, 213, 227
removal of, 227, 266
and September 11 attacks, 120, 226
TV interview of, 131, 132
Hutton, Barbara, 91, 96
Huxley, Thomas, 296
Hylton, Wil, 253
Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007 (symposium), 97
Ibn Saud, 155, 156
“If the South Woulda Won (We’d a Had It Made)” (song), 74
Ignatius, David, 263
I Married a Communist (Roth), 116
In a Free State (Naipaul), 223
India
Amritsar massacre, 93, 206
colonial leadership in, 156, 203–4
end of the Raj in, 93, 143–44, 203–9
and partition, 206
riots in, 316
In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck), 232
Infidel (Hirsi Ali), 195
Information Research Department (IRD), British Foreign Office, 19, 20, 24, 27
Inquisition, 306
Inshallah (Fallaci), 138
internationalism, 321
Interview with History (Fallaci), 134
Invisible Woman, The (Tomalin), 291
Ioannidou, Maria, 235
Iran, 129, 227, 247–50, 265, 267
Iran-Contra, 17
Iraq, 153–58
birth of, 154, 155, 156
inspections in, 258–59
as Mesopotamia, 154, 155, 157
war in, 120, 127–29, 212, 213, 227
Iraq Study Group (ISG), 127, 129
Ireland, Ulster mutiny (1914), 93
Islam, Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens), 110
Israel, 255, 265–68
Jackson, Henry “Scoop,” 118
Jackson, Leslie, 75
Jagger, Mick, 200
James, Clive
Cultural Amnesia: Necesssary Memories from History and the Arts, 147–51
Fan-Mail, 151
James, C. L. R., The Black Jacobins, 223
James, Henry, 93, 305, 320
James Bond Dossier, The (Amis), 98
Japanese imperialism, 206, 207
Jefferson, Thomas, 44, 54, 55, 73, 78, 288–89
Jesus of Nazareth, 81, 109
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel (Shahak and Mezvinsky), 161
Johnson, Lyndon B., 72, 199, 245
Johnson, Magic, 75
Johnson, Samuel, 305
Journals: 1952–2000 (Schlesinger), 197–202
Joyce, James, 81
Finnegans Wake, 164–65
Ulysses, 164
Joyce, William “Lord Haw-Haw,” 93
J Sisters, 181–83
Judgment of Paris, The (Vidal), 180
Judt, Tony, 124–26
Jumblatt, Kamal, 266
Jünger, Ernst, 149
Justice Department, U.S., 106, 108
Kabila, Laurent-Désiré, 3
Kafka, Franz, 167, 307
Kahane, Meir, 125
Kahn, David, The Codebreakers, 111
Karenga, Ron, 287
Kashmir, 63–67, 69
Keats, John, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” 242
Kemal, Mustafa (Atatürk), 34–35, 36–37
Kennedy, Edward M. (Ted), 137, 200, 202, 243–46
Kennedy, John F., 117–18
and ADA, 118
assassination of, 71
and Cuba, 7, 12, 100, 117, 198, 244
health of, 244
and Schlesinger, 197–99, 200
Kennedy, Joseph, Sr., 244
Kennedy, Robert F., 199
Kennedy family, 198, 244
Kentucky Derby, 79
Kenyon College, Ohio, 45, 46
Keogh, David, 106, 107
Ker, Ian, ed., The Everyman Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton: A Biography, 299–310
Kerouac, Jack, 6
Kerry, John, 17, 40, 42, 48, 49, 50, 52, 225, 254
Keyes, Alan, 230
Khomeini, Ayatollah, 135
Khrushchev, Nikita, 12, 142, 144, 198
Kimche, Jon, 318n
King, Florence, Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?, 73
King, Larry, 137
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 110, 199
Kinzer, Stephen, 8
Kipling, Rudyard, 58, 92, 93
Kirwan, Celia, 24–25
Kissinger, Henry A., 127, 128, 133–34, 201, 257, 287
Klein, Melanie, 27
Klein, Morton, 123–24
Koestler, Arthur, 24, 94, 318
Kołakowski, Leszek, Main Currents of Marxism, 149
Koran, 36
Korda, Alberto, 3
Kovály, Heda, 150
Kraus, Karl, 150
“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge), 36
Kulwicki, Alan, 76
Kundera, Milan, 166
Kuwait, 119, 129, 255
Kuwait Oil Company, 97–98
Lamb, Brian, 137
Laschitza, Annelies, 273
Lashmar, Paul, and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War, 19–20
Latitudes del Silencio (Pesce), 7
Laurel, Stan, 93
Lawrence, A. W., 235
Lawrence, D. H., 81
Lawrence, T. E., 153, 154, 157, 158
Learmont, George, 59
Lebanon, 265–67
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Molière), 72
Lee, Robert E., 78
Left Behind series, 166
Lehrer, Tom, “A Christmas Carol,” 283–84, 285, 286
Lemkin, Raphael, 261
Lenin, V. I., 275, 278
The Development of Capitalism in Russia, 274
tomb of, 4
Leninism, 9, 11
“Lepanto” (Chesterton), 299–300, 301
Lermontov, Mikhail
A Hero of Our Time, 57–62
“No, I’m Not Byron,” 58
“On the Death of the Poet,” 61
Lessing, Doris, 62
Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, The (Adler et al., eds.), 273–79
Lewinsky, Monica, 213
Lewis, Anthony, 287
Library of America, 164
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph, 149
Lieberman, Joseph, 120, 226
Liebknecht, Sophie, 277
Lincoln, Abraham
Emancipation Proclamation, 71, 109
Gettysburg Address, 84
habeas corpus suspended by, 108
second inaugural address, 84
Lindbergh, Charles, 54, 116
Lindh, John Walker, 109
Lin Piao, 12
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s (Wilson), 163–68
Literary Mind, The (Eastman), 164
Lituchy, Gregg, 180, 182, 186
Lloyd George, David, 234
Lloyd Webber, Sir Andrew, Evita, 3
Locke, Richard, 218
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 146
Los Angeles riots (1992), 68
Louis, Wm. Roger, Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonialization, 141–46
Loved One, The (Waugh), 168
Lowell, Robert, 45, 81, 177
Lowenberg, Marc, 180
Lugar, Dick, 234
Lumumba, Patrice, 14
L’Univers concentrationnaire (Adler et al., eds.), 273–79
Luxemburg, Rosa, 11, 150, 273–79
Lycett, Andrew, 97
Lyssarides, Vassos, 160
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, 204
MacDiarmid, Hugh, 27
MacIntyre, Alasdair, 7
“How to Write about Lenin—and How Not To,” 148–49
Macready, William, 296
MAD (mutual assured destruction), 118–19
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br /> Mahfouz, Naguib, 29
Mailer, Norman, 81
Main Currents of Marxism (Kołakowski), 149
Makarios III, Archbishop, 134
Malenkov, Georgy, 143
Malinowski, Bronisław, 27
Malle, Louis, 147
Mandela, Nelson, 17, 81
Mandelstam, Nadezhda, 150
Man Who Was Thursday, The (Chesterton), 307
Maoists, 12
Mao Zedong, 160, 271
March on Washington, 199
Marconi case, 301
Marks, Herman, 10–11
Marshall Plan, 116
Martí, Farabundo, 6n
Martí Liberation Front, 2, 3
Martin, Kingsley, 26
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), 297
Marx, Karl, 7
Marxism, 8, 13, 149, 274
Mason-Dixon Line, 73
Masters, John, Bhowani Junction, 205
Matos, Huber, 12
Matthews, Herbert, 11
Maugham, Somerset, 81
Mayan indigenes, 8
McCain, John, 231
McCarthy, Joseph, 26, 28
McCormack, Edward J., 244
McCurdy, Dave, 118
McCuskey, Madeline, 173
McGovern, George, 199–200
McMahon, Linda, 271
McMurtry, Larry, 81
Meacham, Jon, 232
Mearsheimer, John, 125
Medea (Euripides), 237
medical profession, 159–62
Medvedev, Dmitry, 234
Meet the Press (TV), 14
Mein Kampf (Hitler), 274
Mencken, H. L., 79, 150
Mengele, Josef, 160, 161, 276
Menuhin, Yehudi, 94
Mercouri, Melina, 239
Meredith, James, 198
Mesopotamia, as Iraq, 154, 155, 157
Mexico, Guevara in, 10
Mezvinsky, Norton, 161
Michael, Quintana Roo Dunne, 281–82
Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 64
MI5 and MI6, 100
Miguel Street (Naipaul), 223
Milani, Abbas, 249–50
Mill, John Stuart, 296
Miłocz, Czesław, 148
Milosevic, Slobodan, 258
Milton, John, 165, 319
Mimi (cat), 277
Mishra, Pankaj, 67
Mladic, Ratko, 193
Mobutu Sese Seko, 3, 15
Modern Quarterly, The, 28
Molière, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 72
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 22n
Monroe, Marilyn, 199, 244
Montesquieu, 141, 145
Moore, Henry, 23
Moore, Michael, 51, 118
Morgan, Peter, 136
Morgenthau, Henry, 261–62
Morozov, Pavlik, 21–22
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 22, 94
Mother Jones, 118
Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America (Guevara), 5, 7–16
Mount Everest, 211
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 66, 71–72
Mudd, Roger, 137
mudslinging, 39–44
Muggeridge, John, 95–96
multilateralism, 255
Munich (Spielberg), 99
Munif, Abdelrahman, Cities of Salt quintet, 29
Murrow, Edward R., 136
Mussolini, Benito, 274, 275, 303, 306, 314
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