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cult of,
3
–5,
17
–18

death of,
3
–4,
6
,
7
,
15
–17

early years of,
6
–7

Guerrilla Warfare,
7

health of,
6
–7,
15

as internationalist,
7
–11,
13
–15

in later years,
14
–16,
17

leper colonies visited by,
5

medical training of,
5
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
160

The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America,
5
,
7
–16

rationalizations by,
11
–12

sense of humor in,
14

wife and children of,
7

writings of,
6

“Guide to Finnegans Wake, A” (Wilson),
165

Guillén, Nicolás,
6

Habibi, Emile,
Saeed the Pessoptimist,
29
,
117

Haile Selassie,
135

Hale, Patricia,
218
,
222

Halliburton,
120

Hamdi, Yaser Esam,
108
,
109

Hamilton, Alexander,
73

Hamilton, Ian,
177
–78

Hamilton, Lee,
128

Hanley, Jennifer,
211

Hardy, Oliver,
93

Hariri, Rafik,
266
,
267

Harriman, Averall,
198
,
202

Harvard Law Review,
233

Hašek, Jaroslav,
The Good Soldier Schweik,
39

Hastings, Warren,
203

Hauptmann, Gerhart,
The Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint,
275

Havel, Václev,
24

“Haw-Haw, Lord” (Joyce),
93

Hayden, Michael,
110

Hayes, Rutherford B.,
45

Hazlitt, William,
149

health care,
159
–62
,
245

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,
142
,
148

Heidegger, Martin,
274

Heine, Heinrich,
149
,
151

Heller, Joseph,
65

Hemingway, Ernest,
2

Henry VIII, king of England,
309

Hercules,
267
–68

Herero tribe,
276

Hero of Our Time, A
(Lermontov),
57
–62

Herzl, Theodor,
124

Herzog, Werner,
5

Hezbollah,
128
,
265
–68

Hikmet, Nâzim,
34

Hill, Christopher,
91

Hillary, Sir Edmund,
211
–12

Hippocratic principles,
159
–61

Hirohito, Emperor (Japan),
206

Hirsi Ali, Ayaan,
150
,
193
–98

Infidel,
195

History Boys, The
(Bennett),
141

Hitler, Adolf,
117
,
149
,
150
,
238
,
308
–9,
318

and Catholicism,
309

Mein Kampf,
274

Soviet alliance with,
21
,
115
,
116

and Spanish Civil War,
314

Hoffman, Abbie,
200

Hoggart, Richard,
313

Hoggart, Simon,
181

Homer,
Odyssey,
164

Hooters,
76

Hoover, J. Edgar,
110

Hopkinson, Tom,
315

House for Mr. Biswas, A
(Naipaul),
220

Howe, Julia Ward,
116

Howell, Georgina,
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations,
153
–58

“How to Write about Lenin—and How Not To” (MacIntyre),
148
–49

Huch, Ricarda,
150

Hudis, Peter,
273

Hughes, Karen,
107

Hull, Blair,
230

Humphrey, Hubert H.,
116

Hungarian Revolt (1956),
141
,
142
–46,
202

Hussein, Saddam,
49
,
254

and Bush (H. W.) administration,
120
,
128
–29,
213
,
226

connections of,
37
,
102
,
123

and Iran,
129

and Kuwait,
119

opposition to,
105
,
120
,
129
,
213
,
227

removal of,
227
,
266

and September 11 attacks,
120
,
226

TV interview of,
131
,
132

Hutton, Barbara,
91
,
96

Huxley, Thomas,
296

Hylton, Wil,
253

Ian Fleming & James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007
(symposium),
97

Ibn Saud,
155
,
156

“If the South Woulda Won (We'd a Had It Made)” (song),
74

Ignatius, David,
263

I Married a Communist
(Roth),
116

In a Free State
(Naipaul),
223

India

Amritsar massacre,
93
,
206

colonial leadership in,
156
,
203
–4

end of the Raj in,
93
,
143
–44,
203
–9

and partition,
206

riots in,
316

In Dubious Battle
(Steinbeck),
232

Infidel
(Hirsi Ali),
195

Information Research Department (IRD), British Foreign Office,
19
,
20
,
24
,
27

Inquisition,
306

Inshallah
(Fallaci),
138

internationalism,
321

Interview with History
(Fallaci),
134

Invisible Woman, The
(Tomalin),
291

Ioannidou, Maria,
235

Iran,
129
,
227
,
247
–50
,
265
,
267

Iran-Contra,
17

Iraq,
153
–58

birth of,
154
,
155
,
156

inspections in,
258
–59

as Mesopotamia,
154
,
155
,
157

war in,
120
,
127
–29
,
212
,
213
,
227

Iraq Study Group (ISG),
127
,
129

Ireland, Ulster mutiny (1914),
93

Islam, Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens),
110

Israel,
255
,
265
–68

Jackson, Henry “Scoop,”
118

Jackson, Leslie,
75

Jagger, Mick,
200

James, Clive

Cultural Amnesia: Necesssary Memories from History and the Arts,
147
–51

Fan-Mail,
151

James, C. L. R.,
The Black Jacobins,
223

James, Henry,
93
,
305
,
320

James Bond Dossier, The
(Amis),
98

Japanese imperialism,
206
,
207

Jefferson, Thomas,
44
,
54
,
55
,
73
,
78
,
288
–89

Jesus of Nazareth,
81
,
109

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel
(Shahak and Mezvinsky),
161

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
72
,
199
,
245

Johnson, Magic,
75

Johnson, Samuel,
305

Journals: 1952–2000
(Schlesinger),
197
–202

Joyce, James,
81

Finnegans Wake,
164
–65

Ulysses,
164

Joyce, William “Lord Haw-Haw,”
93

J Sisters,
181
–83

Judgment of Paris, The
(Vidal),
180

Judt, Tony,
124
–26

Jumblatt, Kamal,
266

Jünger, Ernst,
149

Justice Department, U.S.,
106
,
108

Kabila, Laurent-Désiré,
3

Kafka, Franz,
167
,
307

Kahane, Meir,
125

Kahn, David,
The Codebreakers,
111

Karenga, Ron,
287

Kashmir,
63
–67,
69

Keats, John, “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”
242

Kemal, Mustafa (Atatürk),
34
–35,
36
–37

Kennedy, Edward M. (Ted),
137
,
200
,
202
,
243
–46

Kennedy, John F.,
117
–18

and ADA,
118

assassination of,
71

and Cuba,
7
,
12
,
100
,
117
,
198
,
244

health of,
244

and Schlesinger,
197
–99,
200

Kennedy, Joseph, Sr.,
244

Kennedy, Robert F.,
199

Kennedy family,
198
,
244

Kentucky Derby,
79

Kenyon College, Ohio,
45
,
46

Keogh, David,
106
,
107

Ker, Ian, ed.,
The Everyman Chesterton
and
G. K. Chesterton: A Biography,
299
–310

Kerouac, Jack,
6

Kerry, John,
17
,
40
,
42
,
48
,
49
,
50
,
52
,
225
,
254

Keyes, Alan,
230

Khomeini, Ayatollah,
135

Khrushchev, Nikita,
12
,
142
,
144
,
198

Kimche, Jon,
318
n

King, Florence,
Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?,
73

King, Larry,
137

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
110
,
199

Kinzer, Stephen,
8

Kipling, Rudyard,
58
,
92
,
93

Kirwan, Celia,
24
–25

Kissinger, Henry A.,
127
,
128
,
133
–34,
201
,
257
,
287

Klein, Melanie,
27

Klein, Morton,
123
–24

Koestler, Arthur,
24
,
94
,
318

Kołakowski, Leszek,
Main Currents of Marxism,
149

Koran,
36

Korda, Alberto,
3

Kovály, Heda,
150

Kraus, Karl,
150

“Kubla Khan” (Coleridge),
36

Kulwicki, Alan,
76

Kundera, Milan,
166

Kuwait,
119
,
129
,
255

Kuwait Oil Company,
97
–98

Lamb, Brian,
137

Laschitza, Annelies,
273

Lashmar, Paul, and James Oliver,
Britain's Secret Propaganda War,
19
–20

Latitudes del Silencio
(Pesce),
7

Laurel, Stan,
93

Lawrence, A. W.,
235

Lawrence, D. H.,
81

Lawrence, T. E.,
153
,
154
,
157
,
158

Learmont, George,
59

Lebanon,
265
–67

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(Molière),
72

Lee, Robert E.,
78

Left Behind series,
166

Lehrer, Tom, “A Christmas Carol,”
283
–84,
285
,
286

Lemkin, Raphael,
261

Lenin, V. I.,
275
,
278

The Development of Capitalism in Russia,
274

tomb of,
4

Leninism,
9
,
11

“Lepanto” (Chesterton),
299
–300,
301

Lermontov, Mikhail

A Hero of Our Time,
57
–62

“No, I'm Not Byron,”
58

“On the Death of the Poet,”
61

Lessing, Doris,
62

Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, The
(Adler et al., eds.),
273
–79

Lewinsky, Monica,
213

Lewis, Anthony,
287

Library of America,
164

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph,
149

Lieberman, Joseph,
120
,
226

Liebknecht, Sophie,
277

Lincoln, Abraham

Emancipation Proclamation,
71
,
109

Gettysburg Address,
84

habeas corpus suspended by,
108

second inaugural address,
84

Lindbergh, Charles,
54
,
116

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