The Patriarch (123 page)

Walter, Eugene, 138

Wanamaker, Rodman, 190

Warburg, James, 191, 246

Warner, Harry, 94, 101, 181

Warner, Jack, 181

Warner Brothers, 94, 129

JPK’s remarks at luncheon at, 501–2

Warren, Earl, 764

Washington News,
208

Washington Post,
364, 507, 620, 763

Washington Star,
284

Washington Times-Herald,
531, 540, 541

Watson, Edwin “Pa,” 489–90

Watts, James, 534, 535

Week, The,
393

Weinberg, Sidney, 550

Weizmann, Chaim, 286, 351, 358, 359, 388, 390, 392, 393

Welles, Sumner, 273, 294, 309, 354, 367, 372, 374, 389, 400, 412, 440, 460, 465, 481–83, 489–90, 493, 496, 507, 512, 615

and bombing of England, 478–79

British-Italian negotiations and, 303–4

Chamberlain’s speech and, 342, 344

on fact-finding tour of Europe, 433–34

on Frankfurter, 508

international conference proposed by, 288

Jewish refugees and, 350–52. 364

and JPK’s meeting with German officials, 384–85

and JPK’s offer as liaison to the pope, 381

Wellington, Alfred, 33, 38

West Point cheating scandal, 649–50

Wheeler, Burton, 176, 234, 317, 514, 517

Wherry, Kenneth, 639, 640, 641

White, Thomas J., 254, 317, 356

White, Theodore, 744

White, William Allen, 507

Whitehead, T. North, 430

Whitney, Richard, 204, 205, 217

Why England Slept
(JFK), 212, 424, 435–36, 457, 494, 514, 745

Williams, G. Mennen “Soapy,” 720

Williams, Harrison, 191

Willicombe, Joe, 183, 186

Willkie, Wendell, 462, 482, 489, 491

Wilson, Horace, 342, 343, 400, 404

Wilson, Woodrow, 67, 181, 284, 335, 736

Britain and, 44

Prohibition and, 79

Selective Service System and, 50

World War I and, 40, 49, 54

Winchell, Walter, 369, 540, 600, 675

Windsor, Duchess of, 325

Windsor, Duke of, 325, 344, 526

Wise, Rabbi Stephen, 327, 386, 389

Wohlthat, Helmuth, 383, 384–85

Wolkoff, Anna, 444–45

Wood, Henry, 468

Wood, Robert E., 506

Wood, Kingsley, 448–49

Woodin, William, 183

Woodring, Harry, 393

Woolf, S. J., 212–13

Worcester Telegram,
766

World War I, 48–57, 172, 219

Britain in, 40, 44, 49–50

financial panic caused by, 40–41

France in, 40, 49

JPK’s opposition to American involvement in, 49–50

JPK’s Selective Service registration during, 50–51, 54

JPK’s shipyard management position during, 51–57

neutrality and, 40, 44

outbreak of, 40

Selective Service System created during, 50

U.S. entry into, 49, 54

Wilson and, 40, 49, 54

World War II, 576–77

Allied invasion of Europe, 567

America First Committee and, 506, 510–11, 517, 519, 525, 531

appeasement and,
see
appeasement of Nazi Germany

Athenia
sinking and, 408–10

atomic bombs in, 580

Britain in, 408–20, 427–31, 433–34, 438–43, 448–55, 458, 460–63, 466, 468, 469, 473–75, 477–81, 483, 486, 496, 516, 529–31, 568, 579, 581, 633, 745

Britain in buildup to, 289, 290, 292–94, 301, 302–3, 323, 329–31, 332, 334–35, 338–47, 368, 373, 399–407

Britain’s declaration of war against Germany, 406–7, 408, 410, 411, 415, 416

destroyers-for-bases negotiations in, 466–67, 469–72, 493

embassy codes and, 430, 444–46

end of, xxii, 579–81

espionage in, 444–47

events leading up to, xxi–xxii, 258, 287–91, 301, 323, 372, 394–95, 398, 399–407

fall of France in, 440, 441, 447–56, 458

France in, 289, 290, 302, 323, 329, 334, 338, 339, 341, 368, 373, 376, 405, 413, 414, 443, 447–56, 633

Germany in,
see
Nazi Germany

and illusion of Anglo-American alliance, 334–35, 342

isolationism and, 289, 292, 295, 431, 433, 434, 486, 498–500, 503, 504, 517, 607–8

Italy in, 451, 479–80, 497, 529, 581

Japan in, 479–80, 538, 577, 580, 581

JFK’s service in, 527–28, 531, 540, 542, 543, 549, 551, 555–59, 560, 734

Joe Kennedy, Jr.’s service in, 527, 528, 540, 542, 543, 546, 549, 555, 562, 570–71

JPK’s pessimism about outcome of, xxii, 373, 416–19, 427–28, 429, 431–32, 461, 479–80, 482, 483–84, 495, 496–97, 498, 501, 503, 509, 515, 517, 544

Kathleen Kennedy’s Red Cross service during, 551, 552, 555

lend-lease program and, 510, 511–13, 515, 516–20, 525

Munich Agreement and, 346–47, 348–49, 359–60, 400, 402, 435–36, 485, 633, 745

neutrality laws and, 288, 415, 418, 443, 445, 459, 510

Pearl Harbor, xxii, 509, 538, 567

Roosevelt’s appeals for negotiations, 341, 342, 343, 344

Selective Service System and, 476

transatlantic communications and, 422–23

Tripartite Pact in, 479–80

U.S. aid to Allies in, 441–43, 451–54, 458–59, 461, 466–72, 498, 503, 510, 517, 519, 605

U.S. entry into, 538–39

U.S. involvement with Allies in, 428, 429, 441–43, 454, 467, 477–80, 485, 486, 491, 504, 513–17

U.S. military strength and, 494–95, 498

World Zionist Organization, 358

Wright, Bishop John, 625, 714

Wyzanski, Charles, 702

Yellow Cab Company, 88–89, 92

Young Men’s Nonpartisan League of Boston, 38

Yugoslavia, 529, 636

Zanuck, Darryl, 299, 502

Zanuck, Virginia Fox, 299

Ziegfeld, Florenz, 97–98

Zionism, 286–87, 351–52, 358, 359, 385, 386, 388–93, 712

Zionist Organization of America, 391

Zukor, Adolph, 75, 94, 100, 101, 109

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Nasaw is the author of
Andrew Carnegie,
which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, awarded the New-York Historical Society Prize in American History, and named a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year, and
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst,
winner of the Bancroft Prize for history and the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography. He is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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Andrew Carnegie

The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst

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