Political Writings

Index

INDEx abundance: and democracy, 278n11; and freedom, 270–71; hopes for future, 216, 217, 221, 264, 291–92; and war, 226; and westward expansion, 267 Abyssinia. See Ethiopia/Abyssinia Act for the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles for Immoral Use (1873), 89 Addams, Jane, xviii, 9, 43–44, 287n1 Africa: British imperialism, 58, 72, 274; indigenous knowledge, 258; missionary activity, 247–48; press attention, 267. See also Egypt; Ethiopia/Abyssinia; South Africa African Americans, continuing marginalization of, 32–34, 87n1, 185; civil liberties, 266; compared with corporate oppression of workers, 147; economic exploitation, xxi, 143n4, 151, 154; as evidence of American democratic myth, 83; exclusion from juries, 144n13; opportunities , 34n1; and prejudice, 111, 143, 154, 252; in South, 140–41, 147, 154, 194–95; white fear, 32–33. See also lynching; peonage; racism/racial oppression ; Scottsboro boys; sharecropping African Americans, cultural richness, 33–34, 34n4 agency, sociopolitical, xxiii, 6 Agricultural Adjustment Act (1938), 212n1 Ainslee’s (magazine), 6 Aksam (Turkish daily), 146 Alabama. See Scottsboro boys Alaska, 64, 80n22, 80n24 Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great), 66, 81n27, 217, 223 Alfonso XIII (Spain), 39, 40n2, 230, 234n5 alienation, 8, 19–20, 21, 23–24 Allende, Salvador, 279n15 Alsace, 62 Álvarez del Vayo, Julio, 244–47, 249n7 “America” (Dreiser, 1932), 171–74 “America, Europe, and Cuba” (Dreiser, 1895), 13–14 America First Committee, 263n15, 264 America Is Worth Saving (Dreiser, 1941), xii, xxvii, 45, 263–77; advertisement for, 268; American values invoked, 219–20; British appeasement of fascism, 218; “Can the British Empire Endure?” 274–75; Dreiser’s suppression of, 215; “Has America a ‘Save-the-World’ Complex,” 264, 265–68; “Has England Done More for Its People Than Fascism or Socialism?” 269–70; “Have English and American Finance Cooperated with Hitler to Destroy Democracy?” 264; summary, 216–17, 263–64; “What are the Objectives of American Finance?” 272–74; “What Is Democracy?” 264, 270–72; “What Should Be the Objectives of the American People?” 276–77; “Will American Democracy Endure?” 275 American Art Galleries, 35n4 American Bar Association Bill of Rights Committee, 261 American Birth Control League, 89 American Civil War. See Civil War (U.S.) American democracy: effect of moralism on, 67; and individualism, 270–71; and labor movement, 237–38, 264, 275; as myth, 67, 68–69, 77, 83–86, 128, 152–54, 234–35, 261; and New Deal, 235–37; potential of, 264, 269, 276–77, 280; powerlessness of, 46; and socialization , 85; vs. true democracy, 59; and war, 158; and wealth inequality, 57. See also American exceptionalism; democracy “American Democracy against Fascism” (Dreiser speech, 1938), 234–38 American exceptionalism, xii–xiii; and America’s global role, xix, 265–68; vs. 296 • Index autocracy, 67–68; defined, xvii; and labor movement, 264; as myth, 51–52, 84–85, 201–2; and WWI, 44, 45, 66–67, 68. See also American democracy; civilization American Federation of Labor (AFL), 135; vs. CIO, 116, 239n7; and conscription, 261; corporate collusion, 110, 138n1, 147, 162n5, 164, 170n3; declining power, 110; as exclusionary, 113–14, 132; Harlan coal region, 163, 166 “The American Financier” (Dreiser, 1920), 46 “American Idealism and German Frightfulness ” (Dreiser, 1917), 56–78; American exceptionalism, 45, 66–67, 68; Anglophilia , 58–62, 72; autocracy, 75–77; capitalism, xxi, 109; corporate power, 69–70; factual error in, xxviii; German efficiency, 70–72, 75; and Golden Rule, 112; imperialism, 57, 63–65; Japan, 61, 67–68, 74–75; Mooney, 128; nativism, xxv; suppression of, xiii, xix, 45, 56, 79n9, 81n33; unpopularity of WWI, 73–74 American imperialism, 64, 116; and Constitution, 269, 275; Cuba, 57, 79n1, 81n25, 157; eradication of, 158; and military interventions, xviii, 4, 13–14, 63, 156–58, 234n8; and Monroe doctrine, 81n25; Philippines, 13, 45, 57, 63, 79n1; Puerto Rico, 157, 162n10, 275. See also imperialism; Panama Canal Zone Americanism, 201–2, 278n7. See also American exceptionalism American Labor Party, 211 American League against War and Fascism. See American League for Peace and Democracy American League for Peace and Democracy , 229, 230, 234n1, 263n10 American Legion, 45 American Peace Mobilization, 215, 261, 263n10 “American Press and American Political Prisoners, The” (Dreiser, 1931), 132–38 American Spectator (newspaper), 175–76; 188n4; Dreiser’s editorship, xxii, 117–18, 175; ironic tone, 176; “Jewish question,” 118, 176–77, 178, 181; and Mooney, 128; and political extremism, 188n2 American Tobacco Company, 74 An American Tragedy (Dreiser, 1925), xxiii, 46, 89, 293 American Workers Party, 114 America’s 60 Families (Lundberg), 238n1 Amter, Israel, 124...