American Experiment (462 page)

Hargrove, Erwin C,
531

Harlem, New York City,
385

Harriman, W. Averell,
103
,
206
,
285
,
287-8
,
343

Harris, David,
426

Hart, Gary,
658

Hartz, Louis,
122
,
626

Harvard Educational Review
,
596-7

Harvard University,
271
,
519
,
532
,
538

Havens, Richie,
427

Hawaii,
176
,
264

Hawks, Howard,
605

Hawley, Ellis,
214

Hawthorne, Nathaniel,
299
,
674

Hayden, Casey,
442

Hayden, Tom,
392

Hayek, Friedrich August von,
560
,
627

Healey, Dorothy,
603

health programs,
112
,
389
,
466
,
559
,
639

Hearst, William Randolph,
10
,
11
,
31
,
35
,
82
,
154
,
282

Hearst newspapers,
10
,
31
,
41
,
46
,
82
,
105
,
123
,
205
,
243
,
282
,
606

Hechinger, Fred,
597

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
281
,
461

Height, Dorothy,
371

Heisenberg, Werner,
269

Heller, Walter,
287
,
561

Helsinki Accords,
488-9
,
523

Hemingway, Ernest,
297
,
298-9
,
593
,
605
,
615
,
620

Henderson, Leon,
102

Hendrix, Jimi,
427

Henry, Patrick,
634

Herblock cartoons,
465
,
624

Hernandez, Aileen,
437
,
440

Herring, George,
406

Hersey, John,
195
,
311

Hersh, Seymour M.,
498
,
500

Hicks, Granville,
300

High, Stanley,
68

High Culture,
622
,
623-4

Hillman, Sidney,
46
,
55-6
,
84
,
107
,
204
,
287

hippie culture of 1960s,
394
,
426-32

Hiroshima,
225
,
234
,
391
,
408

Hiss, Alger,
231-2
,
244
,
252
,
426
,
468
,
625

Hitler, Adolf,
7
,
20
,
63
,
105
,
149-52
,
221
,
222
,
260
,
545

acts of aggression,
149
,
157-8
,
159

perversion of meaning of freedom,
202
,
666

Roosevelt and,
149-52
,
173
,
176
,
202
,
210

and war declaration on US,
172
,
175-6

in World War II,
161-2
,
164
,
166-7
,
169-72
,
175-6
,
180-1
,
200

Hobbes, Thomas,
600

Ho Chi Minh,
341
,
402
,
406
,
418

Hoffman, Abbie,
432

Hofstadter, Richard,
44
,
288
,
626

Hollywood,
194
,
601-3
,
604-8
,
620

alleged communism in,
231

Khrushchev’s visit to,
260
,
301

Hollywood Production Code,
606

Hollywood Ten,
231

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.,
112
,
216
,
231

Holocaust,
218-19
,
267
,
525

home foreclosures, Depression years,
26
,
41

homelessness, Reagan years,
540

homosexuality,
450
,
533

Hook, Sidney,
276
,
277
,
278

Hoover, Herbert,
22
,
58
,
62
,
123
,
600
,
625

as enlightened conservative,
668

1932 presidential candidate,
3
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
17-18
,
55
,
521

in 1936 campaign,
83
,
85

as President,
20-1
,
35
,
101
,
170
,
253
; and Latin America,
328
,
329
; and Supreme Court,
71
,
93

Hoover, J. Edgar,
462
,
499

Hoover Administration,
25
,
40
,
45-6

Hopkins, Harry,
34
,
102
,
112
,
114
,
163
,
168
,
174-5
,
196
,
206
,
223
,
566
,
570

as WPA director,
76
; cultural projects,
133
,
134
,
136
,
140

Hopkins, Jerry,
430

Home, Lena,
369

Horner, Henry,
249

hostage crisis of 1979-80,
530
,
531
,
638

Houghton Mifflin,
139
,
140

House Committee on Un-American Activities,
112
,
132
,
230-2
,
395
,
546

Houseman, John,
136

House of Representatives, US,
647-8
,
655

arts bills of 1938-39, killed by,
132

and civil rights measures,
321
,
375-6

Democratic majorities in,
37
,
87
,
111
,
238
,
245
,
390
,
479
,
555
,
558
,
639

four-year term proposal,
650

1937 reorganization bill killed,
106
,
107

Reagan coalition majorities in,
639-40

Republican gains in, 1938,
111
; 1942,
191

Republican majorities in:
1947-48
,
230
;
1953-54;
253
,
285

House Judiciary Committee,
498
,
506-7

House Rules Committee,
106
,
111
,
321
,
375-6

House Un-American Activities Committee,
see
House Committee on Un-American Activities

House Ways and Means Committee,
192

housing problems,
540
,
570
,
633

housing programs:

Eisenhower Administration,
285
,
320

Fair Deal,
236

Great Society (LBJ),
389

New Deal,
26
,
214
,
648

Reagan cuts,
639

Howe, Irving,
409
,
616
,
631

Howe, Louis,
3-4
,
11
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
18
,
64

Howells, William Dean,
299

HUAC,
see
House Committee on Un-American Activities

Hubble Space Telescope,
587

Hudson, Marion,
434
,
441

Hughes, Charles Evans,
22
,
71
,
72
,
88
,
89
,
90
,
92
,
119
,
593

and Court-packing plan,
93
,
94-5

Hughes, Howard,
504

Hughes, Robert,
622

Hull, Cordell,
13
,
17
,
23
,
35-6
,
151
,
154
,
158-9
,
163
,
164
,
166
,
203
,
219
,
328

human rights,
496
,
522-3

Helsinki Accords,
488-9
,
523

UN Declaration of,
523
,
538-40

US policy,
538-40
; Carter,
522-4
,
526
,
528
,
539
; Reagan,
540
,
638

Humphrey, Hubert,
237
,
259
,
325
,
381
,
412

as presidential candidate: in 1960,
324
; in 1968,
415-16
,
417
,
461
,
555

as Senator,
319-20
,
376-7

as Vice President,
389

Hungary,
158

1956 revolt in,
258
,
286
,
288
,
527

Hunt-Perry, Patricia,
537

Hurd, Peter,
135

Huston Plan,
499

Hutcheson, William “Big Bill,”
55
,
56

Hutchins, Robert,
594

hydrogen bomb,
240
,
256-7
,
287
,
391
,
546
,
549

Soviets in possession of,
256

Iacocca, Lee,
573
,
577

Ickes, Harold,
23
,
29
,
34
,
37
,
71
,
73
,
93
,
102
,
113
,
114
,
118
,
133
,
165
,
216
,
593

opposes internment of Japanese,
190

“soft on communism” charges against,
112

as unilateralist,
154

illiteracy,
566
,
594

immigration laws,
389

impeachment,
506-7
,
511
,
648
,
650

imperialism,
208
,
218
,
338
,
419
,
444
,
470

American,
264-5
,
397
,
524
;

economic and cultural,
295-6

“imperial presidency,”
510
,
511
,
646

income:

family: black vs. white,
314
,
571
; 1950-60s vs. 1970-80s increase,
660
; rich vs. poor,
669
; wartime increase,
184

per capita,
266

see also
wages

income tax,
76
,
191
,
554-5
,
639

India,
176
,
208
,
218
,
338-9
,
348
,
472

Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit to,
339

Jacqueline Kennedy’s visit to,
340-1

Kennedy policy toward,
339-41

living conditions,
303
,
305
,
339

question of independence for,
178
,
208
,
338
,
341

individualism, individual rights,
16
,
42
,
121
,
123
,
124
,
213
,
267
,
275
,
280-1
,
296
,
338
,
539
,
598-601
,
672

equality as competing value,
631

of libertarians,
534
,
627

of New Left,
393

vs. other-directedness and conformity,
279-80

and self-indulgence,
600-1

see also
liberty, individual

Individualism Reconsidered
(Riesman),
280

Indochina,
338
,
341
,
424

French colonialism in,
178
,
208
,
255
,
341-2

Geneva Accords of 1954,
342
,
405

Japanese designs on,
171
,
172

“loss” of,
342
,
401-2
,
404

US involvement: Eisenhower and,
255
,
342
; under Johnson,
401-2
; Kennedy

and,
342-4
(see also
Vietnam War)

industrial revolution,
57
,
273
,
274
,
279

industry,
31
,
268-9

automation in,
272-3
,
274
,
279
,
543

“human engineering” and “human relations” in,
271

New Deal revival of,
30-1

production,
266
; mid-1930s,
101
;

postwar,
264
; wartime,
182-4
,
186
,
199

inflation:

1970s,
531
,
554-62
passim
,
591

postwar,
230
,

World War II,
187

information revolution,
550-1
,
552

Ingersoll, Ralph,
283
,
593