Apocalypse Then: American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975

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Index 281 Abel, Lionel, 209–10 Abolitionists, 223 Adams, Henry, 227 Affluent Society, The, 224 Africa, 71, 79 Age of Reform, The, 14 Agnew, Spiro, 217 Algeria, 49, 71, 77, 79 Alien and Sedition Acts, 48 Alliance for Progress, 55–56 Alpern, Sara, 103 Alperowitz, Gar, 210 Alsop, Joseph, 51–54, 95 Alsop, Stewart, 51 America, 110 American Century, 7, 51–52, 56, 102 American Committee on Cultural Freedom , 159, 210, 222 American Dream, An, 180 American exceptionalism, 3–4, 13–15, 40–43, 59–60, 199, 206, 234–35; and moral exceptionalism, 3–4; and the New Left, 30 American Jewish Committee, 89–90 American Political Science Association, 160 American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It, The, 14 American Power and the New Mandarins, 210 American Revolution, 55 Americans, The, 15 Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 145 Anarchism, 24–27, 36, 70–71, 155, 163, 179, 194, 223 Anatomy of a War, 189, 221 Anticommunism, 3, 4, 12–13; and conservatives , 21–23, 35–36, 87–83; and liberals , 4–5, 9–12, 37, 48–49, 54–69, 96; and neoconservatives, 194–95, 227 Anti-intellectualism, 231 Antiwar movement, 1, 105, 107, 118, 126–27, 132–33, 136, 139, 141, 155–56, 165, 168, 180, 184–87, 190, 194, 207, 216, 220, 221, 222–23, 233. See also United States, domestic and racial concerns Apartheid in South Africa, 233 “Apocalypse Now,” 2 Apocalyptic thought, 1, 2, 8, 52–53, 81–83, 172, 206, 214, 226, 231, 234–35 Arendt, Hannah, 17 Armies of the Night, The, 180 Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, 47 Aronson, James, 26 Aronowitz, Stanley, 140 Augustine, St., on just war, 17, 146 Backlash: against liberalism, 186, 199, 211; against New Left, 192 Baldwin, James, 26, 113, 198 Ball, George, 120 Baltimore Four, 220 Bao Dai, 46, 137 Barbary Shore, The, 180 Baritz, Loren, 42 Barrett, William, 19, 230 Barzun, Jacques, 15, 162 Baxandall, Lee, 140 Bay of Pigs invasion, 91 Beard, Charles, 12 “Beats,” 20 Belfarge, Cedric, 26 Bell, Daniel, 12, 16, 65, 114, 129, 133, 153–55, 159, 161–62, 169, 193–94, 201, 210, 218 Bell, Jack, 147 Bellow, Saul, 19, 142 Ben Suc, 165 Beichman, Arnold, 128 Berkeley Free Speech Movement, 122, 128–30, 132–33, 193 Berrigan, Daniel, 27, 149–50, 190–91, 224, 233 Best and the Brightest, The, 221 Bickel, Alexander M., 98 Bill of Rights, U.S., 11 Binh Xuyen, 46 Bitter Heritage, The, 211 Black Panthers, 192 Bodard, Lucien, 61, 63 Boorstin, Daniel, 12, 15, 124 Booth, Paul, 105 Brain trust, 3 Brinksmanship, 57 Brinton, Crane, 208 British intellectuals and Vietnam, 59, 64–68, 123, 127 Bromberg, Joan, 29 Brook Farm, 6 Brown, Harold O., 198 Brustein, Robert, 98 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 218 Buchan, Alistair, 200, 231 Buchanan, Keith, 76, 137–38 Buckley, Patricia, 80 Buckley, Priscilla, 80 Buckley, William F., Jr., 20–23, 32, 80–83, 98, 114–16, 118, 163, 168–69, 194, 196–98, 205, 213–14, 218, 220, 232 Bundy, McGeorge, 102, 145, 147, 153–54, 188–89 Burdick, Eugene, 58–59 Burma, 49 Burnham, James, 22, 25, 81–83, 114–15, 163, 197–99, 205 Buttinger, Joseph, 39–40, 44, 64, 74, 242 Calley, William, Lt., 7, 215 Cambodia, 107, 220, 230; communism in, 229; invasion of 219–20 Camelot, 50–57. See also Kennedy, John F. Cameron, J. M., 150 Campbell, Alex, 98 Camus, Albert, 26 Capitalism and Economics, 21 Capote, Truman, 19 Caputo, Philip, 1–2, 231 Carmichael, Stokely, 192 Carroll, James, 8 Cash and Violence in Laos and Vietnam, 77 Castro, Fidel, 30, 79, 91 Catholic Worker, 26–27 Catholicism: and the Catholic Worker Movement, 26–27, 105, 131, 150; and the Cold War, 17–19; and conservative intellectuals, 81; and Vietnam, 110, 150 Catonsville Nine, 191, 220 Caute, David, 127 Central America, 233 Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.), 25, 40, 65, 77, 107, 159; and funding of journals, 211, 222, 242 Chambers, Whittaker, 22 Chardin, Pierre Teilhard de, 18 Chatfield, Charles, 105 Cheuse, Alan, 139 “Chicago Seven,” 180, 186, 220 Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, The, 17 China, 33, 47–49, 74, 78, 82–83, 92, 95, 99, 100, 113, 120, 122, 125–26, 138, 155, 157, 221 Chomsky, Noam, 146, 152–56, 165, 178, 189–91, 209–11, 220, 228, 232 Chorodov, Frank, 21 Chou En-Lai, 74 Christian Realism, 17 Church, Frank, 111 Churchill, Winston, 54 Civil disobedience, 190–91 Civil libertarianism, 32, 133; and liberals, 16 Civil rights movement, 13...