And Yet... (48 page)

Paxman, Jeremy,
136

Pepper, Claude,
28

Peres, Shimon,
263

Pericles
(Plutarch),
236
–37

Peron, Juan,
5
,
6

Perot, H. Ross,
41
,
271

Pesce, Hugo,
Latitudes del Silencio,
7

Peter Rabbit
(Potter),
150

Pevsner, Nikolaus,
94

Phidias,
238
,
240

Pickwick Papers, The,
(Dickens),
294
–95

Pierce, Franklin,
76

Pillars of Hercules (Soho pub),
177

Pinckney, Darryl,
188

Plan of Attack
(Woodward),
253
,
255

Pledge of Allegiance,
42
,
75
,
80

PLO,
265

Plot Against America, The,
(Roth),
116

Plutarch,
Pericles,
236
–37

polymath,
147
–48

Popper, Karl,
27
,
94

Potter, Beatrix:

Peter Rabbit,
150

The Tale of Mr. Tod,
150

The Tale of Pigling Bland,
150

Pound, Ezra,
21

Powell, Anthony,
61
,
62
,
149
,
217

Powell, Colin,
112
,
251
–59

My American Journey,
257
–58

POW/MIA,
74

President We Deserve, The
(Walker),
54

Priestley, J. B.,
26

Privilege to Die, A
(Cambanis),
267

Promise of American Life, The
(Croly),
168

Protestant Reformation,
305
,
308
–9

Proust, Marcel,
148

Pushkin, Alexander,
58
–59,
60
–61,
62

Eugene Onegin,
61

Putin, Vladimir,
250

Puzzle Palace, The
(Bamford),
111

Qaddafi, Muammar,
133

Quakers,
111

Quixote, Don (fict.),
7

Radio Free Europe,
145

Raft, George,
2

Rage and the Pride, The
(Fallaci),
139

Raj Quartet, The
(Scott),
63
,
203
–9

Rákosi, Mátyás,
143

Ram Leela
(Indian epic),
65

Randolph, A. Philip,
199

Ransom, Harry,
81

Ransom, John Crowe,
45

Rashid, Ahmed,
222

Rasmussen, Anders Fogh,
263

Rather, Dan,
131
,
132

Rauf, Imam,
284

Raven, Simon,
102

Reading Lolita in Tehran
(Nafisi),
247

Reagan, Ronald,
118
–19,
121
,
199
,
231

Rebel, The
(Camus),
149

Red Brigades,
148

Rees, Richard,
20
,
24
,
25

reflexology,
172

Reformation,
305
,
308
–9

regime change,
255
–56

rehabilitation,
169
–75
,
177
–83
,
185
–91

Brazilian keratin hair treatment,
188
–89

Brazilian waxing technique,
181
–83

dentistry,
180
–81,
186

exercise,
174
,
190
–91

manicure,
187

memory loss,
187
–88

professional report and opinion,
169
–71

scorecard,
191

smoking cessation,
178
–80,
186
–88,
191

spa,
172
–75

unforeseen consequences of,
187

Rehnquist, William,
45

Reid, Harry,
120

Reid, Jerry,
76

Republican Jewish Coalition,
123
–24

Republic of Letters,
165
,
167

Reuther, Walter,
116

Revolution

American,
55

and Counter-Revolution,
7

Decembrist,
58
,
62

expectations of,
8

non-Soviet model sought in,
12

readiness to die in,
10

Rice, Susan,
249

Rich, Marc,
125

Riddle of the Sands, The
(Childers),
155

Rilke, Rainer Maria,
151

Road to Wigan Pier, The
(Orwell),
94
,
313

Robertson, Geoffrey,
107

Robeson, Paul,
27

Robinson, Henry Morton,
165

Roche, Dennis,
188
,
189

Rockwell, Norman,
85

Rodriguez, Felix,
16
–17

Rogers, Will,
201

Rognoni, Virginio,
148

Rolland, Romain,
275

Romero, Anthony,
106
,
110

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
116

Roosevelt, Franklin,
150

Roosevelt, Theodore,
7
,
43

Rose, Charlie,
137

Rosenberg, Alfred,
274

Roth, Philip

I Married a Communist,
116

The Plot Against America,
116

Rousset, David,
L'Univers concentrationnaire,
273

Rubin, Barnett,
110

Rumsfeld, Donald,
127
,
128

Rushdie, Salman,
110
,
321

Midnight's Children,
64

Shalimar the Clown,
63
–69

Shame,
64

Rusk, Dean,
256

Ruskin, John,
296

Russell, Bertrand,
274

Russert, Tim,
137
,
256

Rustin, Bayard,
116

Ryan, Jack,
230

Sadat, Anwar el-,
37
,
201

Saeed the Pessoptimist
(Habibi),
29
,
117

Safire, William,
125

St. Paul's Cathedral, London,
95
,
318
–19

Saklatvala, Shapurji,
92

Salinas Museum, Palermo,
241

Salinger, J. D.,
177

Sandinistas,
3
,
118

San Martín, José de,
6
n

San Salvador,
2

Santiago, Cuba, massacre in,
1

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
148
,
174

Saunders, Frances Stonor,
Who Paid the Piper?,
26

Sayers, Dorothy L.,
166

Scarborough Country
(MSNBC),
87
–88

Schiller, Friedrich von,
275

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.,
116
,
117

The Age of Jackson,
202

The Disuniting of America,
202

Journals: 1952–2000,
197
–202

A Thousand Days,
198

Schlesinger, Stephen, and Stephen Kinzer,
Bitter Fruit,
8

Scholl, Sophie,
150

Schröder, Gerhard,
96

Scott, Paul,
65

The Day of the Scorpion,
204

A Division of the Spoils,
205

The Raj Quartet,
63
,
203
–9

Scott, Sir Walter,
Old Mortality,
59

Scowcroft, Brent,
105

Sebestyen, Victor,
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution,
141
–46

Second Amendment,
112

“Secret People, The” (Chesterton),
300
–301,
303

Sellers, Peter,
99

September 11 attacks,
30
,
247

and Afghanistan-Iraq wars,
119
–20,
255

and Fallaci,
139

and intelligence agencies,
109

and legislation,
108

as life-changing event,
55
,
105
,
119
,
226

and
W.
(film),
225
–26

Serge, Victor,
273

Shahak, Israel, and Norton Mezvinsky,
Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel,
161

Shakespeare, William,
As You Like It,
275
–76

Shalimar the Clown
(Rushdie),
63
–69

Shame
(Rushdie),
64

Shrum, Bob,
243

Silva, Hector,
2
–3

Simpson, Wallis,
92

Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
81

Sir Vidia's Shadow
(Theroux),
221

Sitwell, Osbert,
23

60 minutes
(TV),
136

Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, A
(Campbell and Robinson),
165

Slate

“Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Price of Freedom” (October 8, 2007),
193
–96

“Bah, Humbug” (December 20, 2005),
87
–89

“The Case against Hillary Clinton” (January 14, 2008),
211
–14

“Edward M. Kennedy: Redemption Song” (August 31, 2009),
243
–46

“Engaging with Iran Is Like Having Sex With Someone Who Hates You” (September 14, 2009),
247
–50

“Hezbollah's Progress” (October 18, 2010),
265
–68

“How Uninviting” (October 23, 2006),
123
–26

“Look Who's Cutting and Running Now” (November 20, 2006),
127
–29

“No Regrets” (January 19, 2009),
225
–27

“Physician, Heal Thyself” (July 9, 2007),
159
–62

“The Politicians We Deserve” (October 11, 2010),
269
–71

“Shut Up about Armenians or We'll Hurt Them Again” (April 5, 2010),
261
–64

“The Tall Tale of Tuzla” (March 31, 2008),
215
–16

Slater, Humphrey,
315

Slaughterhouse Province, The
(Davis),
261

Smallholder,
317

Smith, Winston,
317
n

smoking cessation,
178
–80,
186
–88,
191

Smolka, Peter,
23

Smollett, Peter,
25

Snow
(Pamuk),
29
–37

Socialist Leader,
23

Socrates,
237

Solti, Sir George,
94

Somoza, Anastasio,
8
,
9

Sontag, Susan,
119
,
147

Sophocles,
237

South, the,
71
–82

“Bible Belt,”
79

redefining itself,
82

rednecks in,
73

Texas,
80
–82

Soviet Union

and Cold War,
120

“Doctors' Plot” in,
159

Guevara's criticism of,
12
–13

Hitler's alliance with,
21
,
115
,
116

and Hungarian Revolt,
141
,
142
–46

Spain, Communist Party in,
21
,
22

Spanish Armada,
306

Spanish Civil War,
115
,
314
,
315
–16

Spanish Republic,
10

Spender, Stephen,
26

Sperber, Manès,
148

Spielberg, Steven,
Munich,
99

Spinoza, Baruch,
193

Spurling, Hilary,
205

Stalin, Joseph

death of,
142
,
149

and “Doctors' Plot,”
159

and Guevara,
9

and Hitler,
115
,
116

and Orwell,
27
,
28

Stalinism,
19
,
22
,
95
,
161
–62

Stamboul Train
(Greene),
160

“Star-Spangled Banner, The” (anthem),
74

State Department, U.S.,
251
–57

State of Excitement
(Fleming, unpubl.),
97

Steinbeck, John

The Grapes of Wrath,
232

In Dubious Battle,
232

Stendhal,
The Charterhouse of Parma,
201

Stevens, Cat (aka Yusuf Islam),
110

Stevenson, Adlai E.,
43
,
72
,
199
,
256

Stone, I. F.,
14
,
27
,
117

Stone, Oliver,
225
–26

Stones of Athens, The
(Wycherley),
237