What's So Great About America (28 page)

Hinduism

Hitchens, Christopher

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbes, Thomas

Human Universals
(Brown)

Huntington, Samuel

Hurston, Zora Neale

Husayn, Taha

Hussein, Saddam

Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Rushd (Averroes)

Ibn Sinha (Avicenna)

The Idea of Progress
(Bury)

immigrants: American appeal and; assimilation and; assimilation of; minorities vs.; racism and

immorality.
See
morality

imperialism

The Incoherence of Philosophy
(al-Ghazali)

Index of Leading Cultural Indicators
(Bennett)

India: British rule of; civilization of; Western civilization and

Indus River

Iqbal, Muhammad

Iran

Iraq

Islam: Allah and; America vs.; anti-Americanism and; Christianity vs.; civilization of; decline of; law of; radical; Sparta vs.; terrorism and; threat of; threat to; true; Western immorality and

Israel

Istanbul

Jackson, Jesse

Jaffa, Harry

Japan

Jay, John

Jefferson, Thomas; slavery and

Jencks, Christopher

Jerusalem

jihad
; Muslims and

John Paul II

Johnson, Samuel

Judaism

Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare)

Kepler, Johannes

Khalsa, Guru

Khomeini, Ayatollah

al-Kindi

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

King, Rodney

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Kissinger, Henry

Know-Nothing party

Koran

Kristol, Irving

Ku Klux Klan

Kuwait

Landes, David

Laski, Harold

Latin America: American foreign policy and; American ideas and; democracy in; dictatorships in; Western civilization and

Lerner, Michael

Lerner, Ralph

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Lewinsky, Monica

Lewis, Bernard

liberation movements

Libya

Lincoln, Abraham

Locke, John

Lugard, Lord

Macaulay, Thomas

Madhubuti, Haki

Madison, James

Madonna

Malaysia

Malcolm X

Mali

Marcos, Ferdinand

Marshall, John

Marx, Karl

Maryland

Massachusetts

Mazrui, Ali

McCullough, David

McDonald's

McNeill, William

Melzer, Arthur

Middle Ages

Middle East

Mill, John Stuart

Milton, John

Ming dynasty

minorities: America and; assimilation of; immigrants vs.

Mongols

Moralia
(Plutarch)

morality: America and; capitalism and; technology and

Morrison, Toni

Moynihan, Daniel Patrick

Muhammad

multiculturalism: American appeal and; anti-Americanism and; assimilation and; cultural equality and; diversity and; oppression theory and; racism and; Western civilization and

The Muqaddimah
(Khaldun)

Murray, Charles

Musharaff, Pervez

Muslim Brotherhood

Muslims: Allah and;
jihad
and; Koran and; September 11 attacks and; terrorism and.
See also
Islam

NAACP.
See
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Naipaul. S.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Basketball Association (NBA)

nativism

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Newton, Isaac

New York

Nicaragua

Nicholson, Jack

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nile River

Nisbet, Robert

“noble savage,”

Non-Aligned Nations

Nussbaum, Martha

O'Reilly, Bill

Ogletree, Charles

Omar, Mullah

oppression theory

Orientalism
(Said)

Ottoman Empire

Paine, Thomas

Pakistan

Palestine Liberation Organization

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

patriotism: African-Americans and; American Indians and; basis of; conservatism and; nativism vs.

Patterson, Orlando

Paul, Saint

Pearl Harbor

Peloponnesian War

Pentagon

A People's History of the United States
(Zinn)

Pericles

Persians

Pinochet, Augusto

Plagues and Peoples
(McNeill)

Planet America

Plato

Plutarch

Presley, Elvis

printing

progress

Puritans

“pursuit of happiness,”

Qutb, Sayyid

racial preferences

racism: African-Americans and; in America; assimilation and; civil rights movements and; group differences and; immigrants and; multiculturalism and; preferences and; Western civilization and

Reagan, Ronald

Reformation

religion: America and; civilization and; government and; Western civilization and

Renaissance

Republic
(Plato)

Ricci, Matteo

Rieff, David

Roberts, J. M.

Robinson, Randall

Rodman, Dennis

Rodney, Walter

Roman Empire

Roosevelt, Teddy

Roque, Frank

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Augustine vs.;
bourgeois
and; ethic of authenticity and; freedom and; social revolution and

“Rumble in the Jungle,”

Rumsfeld, Donald

Rushdie, Salman

Said, Edward

Salah-al-Din

Sartre, Jean Paul

SAT.
See
Scholastic Assessment Test

The Satanic Verses
(Rushdie)

Saudi Arabia

The Savage Mind
(Lévi-Strauss)

Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)

science, as Western institution

Scientific Revolution

September 11 attacks; America and; bin Laden and; courage and; motivation of; Muslims and; myths regarding; targets of

Seville

Shakespeare, William

Simpson, O. J.

Singapore

slavery: African-Americans and; American founding and; Constitution and; Declaration of Independence and; freedom vs.; oppression theory and; Western civilization and

Slavery and Social Death
(Patterson)

Slouching Towards Gomorrah
(Bork)

Smith, Adam

socialism

Social Security

Socrates

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Sombart, Werner

Somoza, Anastasio

Songhay

South America

Soviet Union

Sowell, Thomas

Spanish Inquisition

Spartans

Stalin, Joseph

Steele, Shelby

Stern, Howard

Sudan

Suicide of the West
(Burnham)

Taliban regime

Taney, Roger Brooke

Tarcov, Nathan

Taylor, Charles

technology

terrorism: America and; equality and; Islam and; war against

Texaco

Third World

Thoreau, Henry David

Tigris River

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Traschen, Jennie

Tristes Tropiques
(Lévi-Strauss)

Turks

Tuskegee Institute

United Nations

United States.
See
America

utopia

Vajpayee, Atal Behari

Vedrine, Hubert

Vietnam

Virginia

Voltaire

Voting Rights Act

Washington, Booker T.

Waugh, Evelyn

The Wealth of Nations
(Smith)

We Are All Multiculturalists Now
(Glazer)

West, Cornel

Western civilization: colonialism and; dominance of; early; ethnocentrism and;
Eurocentrism and; India and; influence of; institutions of; liberation movements and; multiculturalism and; oppression and; racism and; religion and; slavery and; success of; superiority of.
See also
America

White House

White House Years
(Kissinger)

Whitney, Eli

Wilde, Oscar

Williams, Montel

Wilson, James

Wilson, William Julius

Winfrey, Oprah

Wolfe, Tom

women

Woodward. Vann

World Conference on Racism

World Trade Center

World War I

World War II

Xenophon

Yellow River

Yew, Lee Kuan

Zaire

Zheng He

Zinn, Howard

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What's so great about America / Dinesh D'Souza
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1. United States—Civilization. 2. National characteristics,
American. 3. Civilization, Western. I. Title.
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