Index
Acheson, Dean, 20 Ali, Muhammad, 43 Almond, Maj. Gen. Edward, 70, 71, 75 Alsop, Joseph, 27 Ambrose, Stephen, 113–14 American Graffiti (movie), 244–45 American Jewish Congress, 84 Amos ’n Andy (TV show), 34 Anderson, Eddie, 38–39 Anderson, Marian, 41 Anticommunist Witch Hunts, 19, 24–28, 55, 87–88 Arendt, Hannah, 91 Aries, Philippe, 216 Armstrong, Louis, 38 Army-McCarthy Hearings, 26, 90 Astaire, Fred, 206, 212, 219 Auschwitz, 85–86, 97–98 Baker, Rev. Jim, 231 Ball, Lucille, 124–25 Barnett, Ida Wells, 32 Barton, Bruce: Man Nobody Knows,The, 230 Battle Cry (Uris), 210–11 Belafonte, Harry, 38, 43 Benet, Stephen Vincent: “By the Waters of Babylon,” 207 Benny, Jack, 38–39 Best Years of Our Lives,The (movie), 116–17 Blake, Eugene Carson, 226 Blum, John Morton: V Was for Victory, 1 Boone, Pat, 237, 239–41, 242 Bridges at Toko-Ri,The (movie), 57 Brooks, Gwendolyn, 39 Brown v. Board of Education, of Topeka, Kansas , 39, 44 Buck, Pearl S., 51 Buddy Holly Story,The, (movie), 246–47 Bunche, Ralph, 41–42 Burdick, Eugene: Ugly American,The, 254, 257 Bush, George W., 229 “By the Waters of Babylon” (Benet), 207 Campanella, Roy, 35 Canticle for Leibowitz, A (Miller, W.), 207 Caputo, Philip, 264, 265, 272 Castro, Fidel, 23 Catch-22 (Heller), 26 Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas ), 39 Chamberlain, Wilt, 37 Chambers, Whittaker, 20 Charlie Chan (TV show), 56–57 Chesterton, G. K., 222 Chiang Kai-shek, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 61, 100 China White Paper (U.S. State Department ), 55 Chosin Reservoir, 70, 76 Churchill, Winston, 92, 104 Index 276 / Index Cisco Kid (TV show), 197 Clinton, Hillary, 230 Cole, Nat “King,” 38 Collins, Gale, 128 Crevecoeur, Hector St. John: Letters from an American Farmer, 227 Crucible,The (Miller, A.), 25–26 Daily Forward (newspaper), 84 Dandridge, Dorothy, 37 Davis, Sammy, Jr., 43 Day, Doris, 192–93 Dean, Maj. Gen. John, 68, 70 Diary of Anne Frank (book/play/movie), 88–89 Dien Bien Phu, 22, 77, 248–49, 250–51, 257, 258–59, 261 Disney, Walt, 202–203 Dispatches (Herr), 204, 261, 264 Dooley, Dr.Tom, 253–54 Douglass, Frederick, 39, 47 DPs (displaced persons), 83 Du Bois, W. E. B., 32, 39, 41 Dulles, Allen, 29 Dulles, John Foster, 29, 59, 226 Earl, Harley, 169 Ed Sullivan Show, 234, 241 Edwards, Douglas, 197 Eichelberger, Lt. Gen. Robert, 107 Eichmann, Adolf, 91 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1, 10, 16, 21, 22– 23, 27, 29, 44, 85, 99, 102–105, 107–109, 110–14, 221, 226, 229, 266 Eisenhower, Mamie, 130 Elllington, Duke, 38 Ellison, Ralph, 47; Invisible Man, 39 Eliot,T. S.: “The Hollow Men,” 210 Emerson, Faye, 124 Evans, Sara M., 132 Evers, Medgar, 43 Exodus (novel/movie), 89–90 Faith, Lt. Col. Don Carlos, 70–71, 72 Fall, Bernard, Hell in a Very Small Place, 254 Feminine Mystique,The (Friedan), 118, 120 Ferguson, Niall, 80 Fifties,The (Halberstam), 267 Fire in the Lake (Fitzgerald), 255 Fitzgerald, Frances: Fire in the Lake, 255 Flower Drum Song (Broadway/Hollywood musical), 57–58 Formosa (Taiwan), 22, 49–50, 55–56, 61 Four Freedoms (Rockwell), 223 Friedan, Betty, 115; Feminine Mystique,The, 118, 120 From Here to Eternity (novel/movie), 127 Fuchs, Klaus, 20, 25 Fussell, Paul, 108, 264 Gardner, Ava, 206, 212, 219 Gates, Henry Louis, 32, 41, 48 Good-bye to All That (Graves), 262–63, 266, 272–73 Graham, Rev. Billy, 229, 232–33 Graves, Robert, 262; Good-bye to All That, 262–63, 266, 272–73 Greenwood, Lee, 204 Gulag, 86–87 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 253 Haggard, Rev.Ted, 231–32 Halberstam, David, 6, 22, 59, 166; Fifties, The, 267 Harlem Globetrotters, 37 Hell in a Very Small Place (Fall), 254 Heller, Joseph: Catch-22, 26 Hemingway, Ernest: Sun Also Rises,The, 214, 263 Herberg, Rabbi Will: Protestant, Catholic, Jew, 224 Herr, Michael: Dispatches, 204, 261, 264 Hersey, John: Hiroshima, 210 Hiroshima (Hersey), 210 Hiss, Alger, 20, 25, 27, 29 Ho Chi Minh, 14, 60, 251, 255–56 “The Hollow Men” (Eliot), 210 Hollywood Ten, 19, 20, 26, 27 Holocaust, 79–98 Hoover, J. Edgar, 29, 87 Hopalong Cassidy (TV show), 197 Horne, Lena, 42 Howdy Doody (TV show), 197 HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), 19, 20, 21, 22, 55 Huckabee, Mike, 229–30 Hurston, Zora Neale, 47 I Was a Male War Bride (movie), 117 In His Steps (Shelton), 230 Index / 277 Inchon Landing, 65, 73–74 Invisible Man (Ellison), 39 Irony of American History,The...
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