Fifties (140 page)

on anti-Communists,
56
,
58-59

background of,
10-11

Guatemalan policy and,
378
,
379

Hiss affair and,
11-12
,
15
,
17-18

Korean War and,
62
,
66
,
70
,
106

on Little Rock desegregation efforts,
686

on loss of China,
66-67

MacArthur and,
84
,
109
,
114

McCarthy and,
54

Mossadegh’s meeting with,
364

on Nixon-Kennedy debate,
732

nuclear weapons policy and,
36
,
44
,
45-46

Oppenheimer’s briefing of,
35

Truman’s relationship with,
21
,
23
,
24

Adams, Sherman,
210
,
239
,
310-11
,
326
,
623-24
,
689

Adams, Tom,
490
,
491

Adler, Julius Ochs,
383

Adler, Mortimer,
664

Adler, Stella,
269
,
270

Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The
,
509-11

advertising,
199
,
224-27
,
497-505
,
644-46

by Chevrolet,
629-33

consumerism and,
505-6

political,
224-25

television spot,
225
,
227

tobacco industry and,
502-4

Advertising Age
,
628
,
629

Agate, Betty,
169

Agate, Sandy,
169

Agee, James,
53

Agriculture Department, U.S.,
169

Ailes, Roger,
314

Air Force, U.S.,
25
,
37-38
,
71
,
72
,
330
,
341
,
616-17
,
703
,
704

Alabama Journal
,
556

Aldrich, Winthrop,
505

Alfhem
,
380
,
382

alienation,
485
,
527-28
,
530

Allen, Fred,
180-86
,
201

Allen, George,
234

Allen, Lee,
189

Alien, Steve,
477
,
478

All My Sons
(Miller),
262

Almond, Ned,
104
,
105
,
107-8

Alsop, John,
235

Alsop, Joseph,
30-31
,
39
,
235
,
333
,
361-62
,
702
,
703
,
728

Alsop, Stewart,
30-31
,
39
,
235
,
333

Alvarez, Luis,
348

Amaya, Naohiro,
117

Ambrose, Stephen,
249-50
,
314

American Century,
120
,
207

American Civil Liberties Union,
333
,
556

American Dilemma, An
(Myrdal),
413

American Heritage Foundation,
466

American Mercury
,
79

American Restaurant
,
159

Anderson, Edgar,
276
,
281

Anderson, Kent,
645

Angeli, Pier,
483

Annie Get Your Gun
,
466

anti-Semitism,
88
,
220
,
289
,
298
,
394

Appleton
(Wis.)
Post Crescent
,
53

Appointment on the Moon
(Lewis),
607

Arabs, Oil, and History
(Roosevelt),
362

Arbenz Guzmán, Jacobo,
370
,
371
,
374
,
375
,
378-80
,
381
,
382
,
384-85
,
386
,
725

Ardrey, Robert,
266

Arevalo Bermejo, Juan Jose,
377-78

“Arguing the Case for Being Panicky,”
625

Arkansas Democrat
,
668
,
683

Arkansas Gazette
,
668
,
672
,
679
,
683
,
689

Arkus-Duntov, Zora,
487-88

Arlen, Michael,
234

Armstrong, Park,
386

Army, U.S.,
25
,
622

Army-McCarthy hearings,
54-55
,
251-52
,
330

Arnaz, Desi,
196-201

Arnaz, Desi, Jr.,
200
,
201
,
508

Arneson, R. Gordon,
23
,
44

Arno, Peter,
278

Arnold, Henry,
42
,
45

Arthur Godfrey Show, The
,
196

Arvey, Jake,
219
,
220
,
221-22

Ascoli, Max,
189

Ashmore, Harry,
668
,
671
,
672
,
678
,
683
,
684
,
689

Asphalt Jungle, The
,
567

Associated Press,
50
,
55
,
211
,
217
,
253
,
558
,
577
,
676

Atkins, Chet,
463

Atlantic
,
234

Atlee, Clement,
216

atomic bomb,
30
,
35
,
63
,
330
,
331
,
704-5

Korean War and,
109
,
112-13

Soviet Union and,
24-28

Trinity and,
28-29
,
33-34

U.S. monopoly of,
24-25
,
27

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),
25-26
,
36
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
43
,
44
,
45
,
98
,
332

Oppenheimer’s ouster and,
334-35
,
342-44
,
346
,
348-49

Attwood, Bill,
220

Atwood, Wallace,
290

Aubrey, Jim,
200

Auerbach, Arnold “Red,”
693
,
694
,
695

Avedon, Richard,
502
,
563

Ayers, Clarence,
529

Aykroyd, Dan,
513

Ayres, Harold,
71

Ayres, W. E.,
447

Azbell, Joe,
558

Bagley, S. P.,
156

Bainbridge, Kenneth,
29

Baird, Gil,
499

Baker, Bob,
680

Baker, Carlos,
584

Baker, Newton,
80

Baker, Russell,
721
,
731

Baldwin, Hanson,
707
,
711

Baldwin, James,
550

Ball, George,
220-21
,
231

Ball, Lucille,
196-201
,
508

Bancroft, Mary,
705

Bankhead, Tallulah,
266

Banks, Ernie,
692

Barkley, Alben,
223

Barnard, Allan,
577

Barnouw, Erik,
184
,
185

Barquin, Ramon,
719

Barry, Jack,
650
,
654
,
656
,
659

Barton, Bruce,
241

Baruch, Bernard,
392
,
393

Barzun, Jacques,
654

Bassett, Jim,
325
,
327

Bates, Charley,
333

Bates, Daisy,
669
,
673-74
,
686-87
,
688
,
689

Bates, Ted,
227
,
228
,
501

Batista, Fulgencio,
376
,
713-19

Battle of Angels
(Williams),
260

Bayley, Stephen,
123

Bay of Pigs operation,
371
,
372
,
726

Beat Generation,
295-307

Beat the Jackpot
,
64

Beilenson, Murray,
151
,
152

Bell, Daniel,
534

Benny, Jack,
182
,
201-2

Benton, Barbie,
574

Benton, William,
501

Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich,
47

Berkner, Lloyd,
623

Berle, Milton,
185-87
,
196
,
201
,
239
,
477

Berlin, Isaiah,
235
,
703

Bernays, Edward,
381

Bernstein, Leonard,
455-56

Berry, Chuck,
471
,
472
,
691

Berryman, John,
654

Beschloss, Michael,
615
,
707-8

Bethe, Hans,
37
,
46
,
89
,
90
,
92
,
97
,
98

Better Homes and Gardens
,
591

Bidault, Georges,
409

Bigart, Homer,
680

Big Board, The
,
646

Bigeard, Marcel,
401

Big Kill, The
(Spillane),
60

Big Moment, The
,
646

Binford, Lloyd,
460
,
466

Bird, Robert S.,
680

birth control movement:

Comstock laws and,
286-87

McCormick and,
287-88

Pill and,
598
,
601
,
602-3

Planned Parenthood and,
286
,
292
,
599
,
602
,
604
,
605

see also
Pincus, Gregory Goodwin “Goody”; Sanger, Margaret

Bissell, Richard,
617
,
705
,
707
,
708
,
725
,
726

Bitter Fruit
(Schlesinger and Kinzer),
376

Black, Bill,
457-58

Black, Hugo,
410
,
411
,
412
,
418

blacks:

Levittown discrimination against,
141

migration of,
441-45

music and,
463-65
,
691

see also
civil rights movement