American Prophet: The Life and Work of Carey McWilliams

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325 I N D E X Abowitz, Ellenore, 188 ABA. See American Bar Association ACCF. See American Committee for Cultural Freedom ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union Adamic, Louis, 33–36, 44, 48, 58, 60, 64, 69–73, 80, 84, 108–9, 147, 153, 155–56, 184, 193, 194, 202, 273–74, 297; suicide of, 193, 194, 202; and Louis Adamic & Shadow-America (McWilliams), v, 60 Adamic, Stella Sanders, 48, 193 Adams, Henry, 277, 281, 299 Aidlin, Joseph, 139, 151 Aidlin, Mary, 139, 275 Aikman, Duncan, 43, 185; reviews North from Mexico, 157 Alien Registration Act (Smith Act), 96, 165–66, 175, 205 Alinsky, Saul, 157 Alvarez del Vayo, Julio. See Vayo, Julio Alvarez del American Bar Association (ABA), 64 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 25, 60, 64, 77, 81, 84, 94, 100, 103, 125, 153, 165, 187, 198–99, 200, 218, 240, 270, 296; reviews Mask for Privilege, 154 American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF), 200–203 American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born, 94, 125 American Mercury (magazine), 9, 23, 27, 29, 35, 39, 47, 49, 55, 61, 73, 77, 126 Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 152–53 anti-Semitism, 24–25, 47, 75, 153–55, 156, 206 Armitage, Merle, 34, 43 Ask the Dust (John Fante), 58, 259–60, 285 Assembly Relief Investigating Committee , anti-Communist focus of, 103, 124, 131 Associated Farmers, ix, 77, 91–96, 99–100, 149, 179; on Factories in the Field and Grapes of Wrath, 79 Austin, Mary, 31, 38–42, 55–56, 144, 184 Ayres, Edward Duran, 116–17 Baldwin, James, 223, 238–41 Baldwin, Roger, reviews A Mask for Privilege, 154–55 Bancroft, Philip, 96–97 Barrett, Edward Jr., 125 Barth, Alan, reviews Witch Hunt, 171–73 Bassett, William K., 75–76, 79 Baxter, Leone, and partner Clem Whitaker, 162–63, 186 Bay of Pigs invasion, 224, 280 Beals, Carleton, 273 Belmont, Clive. See Herbert Klein Bentley, Elizabeth, 193, 209 Bessie, Alvah, 266 Biddle, Francis, 104–5, 124 Bierce, Ambrose, vii, 8, 27–32, 38–39, 46–53, 56, 214, 255, 268–69, 275, 278, 297, 299 Bioff, Willie, 85–86, 201, 228 Black and White (magazine), 82 Black, Hammack & Black, 30 Black Panther Party, 238–40 Blaisdell, Esther, 63, 66–68, 84 Block, Herbert (Herblock), 226, 264 Bloom, Harold, 288, 292–93, 307 Bogart, Humphrey, 167 Bohemian Club (San Francisco), 31, 33, 35 Boudin, Kathy, 251–52 Boudin, Leonard, reviews Witch Hunt, 172, 251–52 Boudin, Louis, 185, 251 Bowron, Fletcher, 106, 122, 139 Brave One, The (‹lm), 218 Braverman, Harry, 117, 120, 157 Brechin, Gray, 142, 287–88, 296 Brecht, Bertolt, 127, 166, 168 Bridges, Harry, viii, 69, 81–82, 96–97, 140, 166, 169, 179, 192–93, 244, 266 Brinkley, Douglas, 238 Brothers Under the Skin, vii, 103, 112, 113–15, 126, 132, 152, 154, 155, 158, 201 Brown Berets, Los Angeles, 240–41 Brown, Edmund G. “Pat,” 130, 150, 216, 222–27, 228–29, 270 Brown, Jerry, viii, 272, 284 Brownell, Herbert, 194, 199, 208 Buckley, William F., 236, 250 Budenz, Louis, 131–32, 175, 193, 194, 200–201 Bundy, McGeorge, 170–71 Burroughs, John Rolfe, 2–5, 11, 13 Caldwell, Erskine, 44, 86, 140 The California Revolution (McWilliams), 236, 245–46, 264, 270 California: The Great Exception (McWilliams), 148, 159, 163–64, 264, 268, 288–89, 291, 297 California Studies Association (CSA), 290; and Carey McWilliams Award, 287 Cameron, Angus, 111–12, 137, 190, 201, 237, 306; and Alfred Kahn, 208 Cannon, Lou, 228, 230, 236 Carney, Francis, 80, 280, 291 Carrillo, Leo, 122 Carter, Jimmy, 273 Casley, Lottie, 15, 31 Casley, Vernon, 15 Catledge, Turner, 224 Caughey, John, 269, 283 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 202–3, 214, 224, 272 Chambers, Whittaker, 86, 166, 190, 208 Chandler, Harry, 17 Chandler, Otis, 264 Chaplin, Charlie, 94, 130 Chávez, César, viii, 157–58, 230, 240, 283, 287 Chinatown (‹lm), viii, 24, 40, 144, 260–61, 287, 306, 307 Chinese, discrimination against, 87–89, 112–14, 141, 143 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 87–89, 113, 154, 196 Chomsky, Noam, 235, 298 CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency Clark, Blair, 275 Clark, Evans, 177, 182, 183 Clark, Tom, 106–7 Cleaver, Eldridge, 238–39 Clover, Samuel T., 42–43, 284 Cohn, Roy, 207 Cold War, v, 152, 155, 177, 183, 190–98, 203–4, 210, 216, 243, 245, 246, 280–81; and anti-Communist investigations, 165, 174; and JFK, 223, 231; and McCarthyism, 202–4 Cole, Lester, 169, 266 Combs, R. E., 125–26 Commentary (magazine...