Authors: Ira Katznelson
Jenkins, Fell, 97
Jews, 22, 23
in Germany, 40, 52, 74, 111, 342
as scientists, 347
Stalin’s repression of, 356
see also
anti-Semitism
Jim Crow, 14–15
Johnson, Alvin, 49
Johnson, Andrew, 569
Johnson, Charles, 15
Johnson, Edwin “Big Ed,” 429
Johnson, Hugh, 93, 228, 232, 237, 242
Johnson, James Weldon, 138–39
Johnson, Jed, 262
Johnson, Louis, 453–54
Johnson, Luther, 301
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 4, 86, 434, 443, 475, 555, 603, 645, 655
Johnston, Olin, 190–91, 564
Joint Army and Navy Board, 337–38
Joint Chiefs of Staff, 438, 445, 448, 450, 454
Jones, Wesley, 147
Judt, Tony, 43
Justice Department, U.S., 159–60, 175, 341, 342, 353, 445, 608
antilynching bill and, 166, 167
Civil Liberties section of, 218
juvenile delinquency, 88
Kallen, Horace, 93
Kaltenborn, H. V., 410
Kamenev, Lev, 80, 81, 82, 95, 516
Kassel, Germany, 111
Katyn Forest, 83, 356
Kazakhstan, 357, 465
Kazin, Alfred, 35
Kee, John, 443
Keenan, Joseph, 85
Kefauver, Estes, 207, 209, 219, 443, 564
Kellogg, Frank B., 296
Kellogg-Briand Pact, 39, 102, 296
Kelly, Edward, 66
Kendrick, B. B., 170
Kennan, George, 32, 278, 412–14, 450
Kennedy, David, 243, 519
Kennedy, Edward M., 44
Kennedy, John F., 44, 46, 157
Kennedy, Joseph P., 44
Kennedy, Robert F., 44
Kenney, George, 448
Kent, Frank, 176
Kentucky, 22, 136, 137, 141, 143, 203, 253, 426, 566
Key, V. O., Jr., 127–28, 264
Keynes, John Maynard, 5, 234–35, 373, 377, 488
Keyserling, Leon, 248, 381
Keyssar, Alexander, 200, 202
Khrushchev, Nikita, 78, 82, 515
Kiev, 41
Kilday, Paul, 427, 645
Kilgore, Harley, 454–55, 464, 465
Killinger, Manfred von, 588
King, Ernest, 42
King, William, 573
King, W. L. Mackenzie, 637
Kirov, Sergei, 80
Kirov Ballet, 516
Kistiakowsky, Dr., 404, 631
Kitchens, Wade, 270
Knight, Frank, 33
Knutson, Harold, 424
Kolakowski, Leszek, 43
Korean War, 13, 38, 46–47, 95, 204, 418, 419, 441, 442, 447, 449, 450, 451, 452–53, 457, 468–69, 470, 637
Korematsu v. United States,
608
Kotkin, Stephen, 54, 79
Kousser, Morgan, 142
Kramer, Alan, 101
Krebs, Ronald, 200
Kristallnacht, 69, 300, 501
Krock, Arthur, 547
Krupp, 523
Kuhn, Fritz, 56–57, 604
Ku Klux Klan, 83, 85, 141, 145, 187, 283, 520, 588
Labor Advisory Board, 230
Labor Department, U.S., 184, 258, 382–83, 384, 387–88, 389
laborers, 85
Labor Management Relations Act,
see
Taft-Hartley Act
labor movement, 48, 231
labor rights, 248
labor standards bill, 267–72
labor unrest, 39, 151
LaFollette, Robert, 147
Lake Charles, La., 218
Lamar, Lucius, 156–57, 158, 543
land assessments, 84
Landon, Alf, 164–65
Lanham, Fritz, 432
Laski, Harold, 40
Lasswell, Harold, 45, 319, 373–74, 481–82
Latin America, 22–23, 117, 322, 439, 646–47
Latvia, 105, 277, 356
Laurence, William, 403, 404–5, 410, 428
Lavery, Urban, 558
Law of December 1, 80
Law of War, The
(Risley), 99–100
Lawrence, Ernest, 613
Lawrence, Geoffrey, 71
Lawson, B. V., 89
Lead Pencil Association, 229
League of Nations, 39, 102, 288, 290, 293, 296, 407
Lebed, Mykola, 445
LeCompte, Karl, 204
Lederer, Emil, 319, 496
Lee, Joshua, 308
Lehman, Herbert, 66, 228, 242, 465
LeMay, Curtis, 350, 445–46, 447, 448, 450–51, 469
Lemkin, Raphael, 102
Lend-Lease, 305–7, 310, 311, 393, 406, 637
Lenin, V. I., 94, 105
Leningrad, 354, 355
Leuchtenburg, William, 37, 99
Lever, Asbury, 146
Lewis, John L., 4, 230, 571, 627
Lewis, Sinclair, 281
Liaison Office for Personnel Management, 622
liberal democracy, 23
as abandoned in Soviet Union, 55
alleged 1920s triumph of, 103–5
debates over validity of, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 32
decisions legitimized by, 18–19
Mussolini’s denunciation of, 113
New Deal as test of, 9–10, 25, 50
proliferation of threats to, 39, 43–44, 46, 114–17, 121
World War II as threat to, 46
liberalism, 4, 529–30
Liberia, 89
Libya, 68, 69, 510
Lichtenstein, Nelson, 627
Life,
89–90, 411–12, 416
Lilienthal, David, 416, 432, 453–54, 638, 644
Lincoln, Abraham, 22, 89, 133, 200, 212, 318, 335, 337, 470
black equality rejected by, 139
Lincoln Memorial, 90
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 65, 69, 511
Lindbergh, Charles, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69–70, 71, 281, 303, 304, 322, 506, 511
Lindberghflug, Der
(Brecht), 62
Link, Arthur, 145–46, 539
Lippmann, Walter, 30–31, 34, 36, 120, 161, 255, 298, 306, 316, 332, 360, 369, 407, 414, 496, 531, 635
creation of UN desired by, 415
dictatorship promoted by, 118–19, 121, 123, 124
New Deal criticized by, 44–45
on U.S. interest in World War II, 358
liquidity, 38
literacy tests, 84, 134
Lithuania, 277, 356
livestock, 251
lobbyists, 478
Locke, John, 109
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 148, 597
Loewenstein, Karl, 32, 105–6, 110, 528
Logan, Rayford, 138, 176
logrolling, 263
London, England, 41, 351
London Charter, 76, 78
Long, Benjamin F., 145
Long, Breckenridge, 67, 68, 69, 71, 94, 510
Long, Huey, 128, 161, 241, 292, 471
Long Telegram, 413–14
Lonn, Ella, 169
Lorwin, Lewis, 237–38
Los Alamos, 349, 403, 462, 482–83, 614
Los Angeles Times,
270, 294, 316, 446
Louisiana, 136, 140, 165, 204, 426, 566
Loving v. Virginia,
137
Low Countries, 40, 274, 279, 319
Lowi, Theodore, 19, 493
Loyalty Review Board, 459–61
Lozier, Ralph, 263, 264
Lubyanka prison, 82
Lucas, Scott, 205, 220–21
Lucas-Green bill, 568
Luce, Clare Boothe, 89–90, 433
Luce, Henry, 59–60, 244, 277
Luckner, Felix von, 284
Ludlow, Louis, 291
Luftwaffe, 64
lumber, 262
Lusitania,
289–90
Luxembourg, 418, 593
lynchings, 84, 86–87, 96–97, 141, 149, 166, 176, 187, 521–22, 546
MacArthur, Douglas, 47, 68, 410
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 17
MacLeish, Archibald, 47, 321
Madison, James, 119
Madison Square Garden Bowl, 67
Madonna of Loreto, 507
Magnitogorsk, USSR, 79
Mahon, George, 450
Maier, Charles, 109
mail-opening program, 322
Mak, Geert, 97
malaria, 171–72
Malaya, 41
Manchuria, Japan’s conquering of, 39, 102
Mandelstam, Osip, 77
manganese, 288
Manhattan Project, 14, 349, 362, 403–5, 414, 420, 430, 444, 463, 482, 613
Mann, Thomas, 50, 100
Mao Zedong, 451
Marcantonio, Vito, 604–5
March Field, 218
March on Rome, 63, 112, 530
Marco Polo Bridge, 295
Margalit, Avishai, 485, 486
Marland, Ernest, 570
Marreco, Anthony, 518
Marshall, George C., 317, 318, 410, 417–18, 437–38
Marshall Plan, 417–18
Martin, Joseph, 202, 214, 444
Marx, Karl, 237
Marxism, 463
Maryland, 22, 136
Mason, Noah, 330
“Mass Demonstration for True Americanism,” 57
Maternity and Infancy Welfare Act (1921), 147
Mattioli, Guido, 62
Maverick, Maury, 86, 158, 544
maximum hours, 241, 267, 270
May, Andrew Jackson, 312, 324, 429, 644
Maybank, Burnet, 91, 190–91, 443
Mayhew, David, 200, 543
May-Johnson bill, 429–30, 454
McAdoo, William, 573
McCarran, Pat, 331, 464, 654
McCarthy, Frank, 646
McCarthy, Joseph, 331, 464, 483
McClellan, John, 269, 292
McCloy, John J., 213, 638
McCormack, John, 329
McCormick, Anne O’Hare, 123, 141–42, 296
McFarlane, William, 255
McGehee, Dan, 143
McGugin, Harold, 578
McKellar, Kenneth, 149, 305, 466, 644
McKinley Tariff, 261
McMahon, Brien, 430, 431
McNamara, Robert, 350, 500
McNarry, Charles, 179
McReynolds, Samuel, 254, 294
Mead, Margaret, 373
Meadows, Paul, 46
Means, Gardiner, 374
Measures to Liquidate the Trotskyists and Other Double-Dealers,
78
Mein Kampf
(Hitler), 86, 305
Mellett, Lowell, 169–70
Memphis National Baptist Convention, 210
Menninger, Karl, 370
Merchant Marine, 220
Merchant Marine Act (1920), 147
Merchants Association, 237
Merriam, Charles, 53, 93, 374–75, 422
Merrimon, Augustus, 157, 158
Meyerhoff, Howard, 430
Michener, Earl, 352
Middle East, 314, 336, 362
Mikhoels, Solomon, 616
Military Liaison Committee, 435
Miller, Byron, 435–36
Millis, Walter, 436
Mills, C. Wright, 19, 480–81
Mills, Wilbur, 455–56
Milton, George Fort, 15
mineral resources, 158
Minersville School District v. Gobitis,
481
minimum wage, 241, 265, 387
mining, 177, 391
Minsk, 41
Mississippi, 83–84, 136, 140, 141, 142, 143, 165, 199, 204, 394, 566, 597
1946 election in, 88, 89, 91–92
Ordinance of Secession of, 156
Missouri, 22, 136, 141, 185, 253
Missouri,
USS, 405
Mitchell, Arthur, 544
Mitchell, Broadus, 164, 546
Mitchell, Ewing Y., 509
Mitchell, John Ridley, 253–54
Mitchell, Wesley, 373–74
Moeller van den Bruck, Arthur, 105
Mola, General, 590
Moley, Raymond, 236
Mollison, James, 61
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 75, 358, 615, 637
monopolies, 146
Monroe Doctrine, 280, 637
Monroney, A. S. “Mike,” 466
Montaigne, Michel de, 29
Montesquieu, Baron von, 110
Montgomery Advertiser,
286
Montgomery Ward, 273
Moore, Freddy, 141
“Moral Equivalent of War, The” (James), 120, 532
Morgan, Arthur E., 254
Morgan, Charles, 83
Morgan, Kuhn & Loeb, 257
Morgenthau, Hans, 50, 107, 115, 480
Morrison, Philip, 414–15
Morrison, Toni, 22
mortgage payments, 37
Moscow, 353
Moscow Declaration, 75–76, 77, 78
Moscow University, 59
Mott, James, 260
Moulton, Harold, 595
Mrachkovsky, Sergei, 81
Mumford, Lewis, 45, 373–74, 502
Mundelein, Cardinal, 65
Munich pact, 289, 301
Munitions Board, 439
Murphy, Frank, 330, 608
Murray, Gilbert, 476
Murray, Philip, 627
Muscle Shoals, Ala., 252, 253
Musil, Robert, 47–48
Mussolini, Benito, 12, 58, 64, 66, 67, 71, 88, 109, 116, 236, 282, 485, 506
administration organized by, 54
death of, 71
death of liberal state proclaimed by, 5, 6
Fascism praised by, 111–12
liberalism denounced by, 113
Libyan tour of, 69
Mussolini aviatore
(Mattioli), 62
Myrdal, Gunnar, 15, 138, 139, 207, 218, 488
NAACP, 88, 160, 176, 185, 210, 392
Nagasaki, Japan, 349–50, 383, 405, 410, 411, 414, 428, 612
Namaqua, 42
Nash, Nelson, 97, 522
Nathan, Otto, 571
Nation,
119, 201
National Academy of Science, 642
National Airport, 88
National Association of Manufacturers, 344
National Automobile Chamber, 230
National Baptist Convention, 210
National Bureau of Standards, 463
National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 392
National Coal Association, 229
National Committee on Rural and Social Planning, 268
National Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism, 87
National Council for the Prevention of War, 291
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, 464
National Defense Act (1920), 323
National Defense Advisory Commission, 85, 307, 323
National Defense Program, 437
National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), 346–47
National Democratic Party, 193
National Economic Council, 245
National Emergency Council, 169
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA; 1933), 30, 60, 124, 162, 178, 227–33, 235, 238–41, 244, 250, 541, 551–52, 570
parade for, 227–29
nationalism, 39, 41
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) (Wagner Act; 1935), 30, 39, 43, 172, 173, 183, 250, 252, 257–59, 260, 265, 268, 272–73, 274, 291, 370, 389, 391, 393, 394, 397, 576, 580
Truman’s desire for amendments to, 394
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), 36, 258, 273, 390, 397–98
National Opinion Research Center, 199
National Recovery Administration (NRA), 36, 93, 228, 231, 232, 236–38, 241–48, 268, 307, 323, 344, 370, 373, 374, 380, 439, 477–78, 510, 571, 574–75
Business Advisory Board, 245
Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry, 246
Supreme Court’s striking down of, 245, 247, 257, 267, 373