Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (121 page)

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and John Foster Dulles,
283

during 1950s,
261

during 1960s,
455
,
608
,
629

and Eisenhower,
279

and Equal Rights Amendment,
37

and federal government,
184

and Hollywood,
189
–90,
203
,
238
–40

House Committee on Un-American Activities,
113

and Joseph McCarthy,
178
–87,
202

John Birch Society,
408

and Kennedy,
486
–87

and Korea,
214
,
236

and labor unions,
47
,
53
–54

and liberals,
120

and 1948 election,
157

political popularity,
203
,
488

and Stalin,
90

and Supreme Court,
416
,
418

and Taft-Hartley Act,
51
–53

and Truman,
167

and Truman Doctrine,
126
–29

Anti-war movement,
735

and active resistance,
630

backlash against,
639
,
668
,
676

and invasion of Cambodia,
751
,
754
–55

Mobilization Day,
753
–54

and New Left,
623
–26,
717

and 1968 election,
683
,
690
,
694

in popular culture,
626

and television,
620
–21,
680
–81

and young people,
621
–23,
627
–29

and women,
645

Aptheker, Herbert,
627

Architecture,
11
,
317

Area Redevelopment Act (1961),
467

Arendt, Hannah,
237

Argonne Laboratory,
522

Arlington National Cemetery,
317
–18

Armstrong, Louis,
30
,
372

Armstrong, Neil,
453
,
491

Arnaz, Desi,
350

Art,
334
,
345
,
346

Arthur, Chester Alan,
243

Ashe, Arthur,
382

Asian-Americans,
16
,
377
–78,
379
,
380
,
406

Atkinson, Brooks,
120

Atomic bomb.
See
Nuclear weapons

Atomic Energy Commission (AEC),
173
,
264
,
276
,
278

Atoms for Peace,
280

Attlee, Clement,
224

Australia,
81
,
293
,
296

Austria,
15
,
302

Automobile industry: and baby boom,
79

and Interstate Highway Act,
274
,
316

during 1950s,
315
,
317

post-war boom in,
8
,
10
,
61
,
70
–71

style changes in,
345

and United Automobile Workers,
41
,
44

and U.S. economy,
783

Autry, Gene,
12

Baby boom: and birth rates,
77
–78

and economic growth,
314
–15

and education,
446
,
571

and marriage,
361

and prosperity,
79
–80,
81

and rising expectations,
323
,
637
–38

and sexual revolution,
671

and Vietnam War,
598
,
631

and work force,
450
,
738
,
783

Baby Doll
(film),
359
–60

Bacall, Lauren,
190

Baez, Joan,
449
,
483

Baker, Bobby,
529

Baker, Carroll,
359
,
360

Baker, Ella,
408
,
432

Baker v. Carr
(1962),
565

Balaguer, Joaquin,
611

Baldwin, James,
345
,
468
,
552
,
654

The
Fire Next Time
,
444
,
480

Nobody Knows My Name
,
384

Ball, George,
258
,
501
,
601
,
683
–84

Ball, Lucille,
349
,
350
,
351
,
365
,
454
n

Banfield, Edward,
651
–52

Baraka, Imanu Amiri.
See
Jones, LeRoi

Barenblatt v. U.S
. (1959),
418

Barkley, Alben,
138
–39,
144
,
156
,
160
,
228

Barnard, Christian,
453

Barnett, Ross,
470
,
477
,
478

Barry, Marion,
431
,
432
,
471

Barth, Karl,
403

Bartlett, Charles,
516

Baruch, Bernard,
119

Baseball,
20
,
315
–16

Baxter, Anne,
363
,
364

Bay of Pigs invasion,
492
–97,
498
,
499
–500,
504
,
506
,
507
,
510
,
514
,
517

The Beach Boys,
626

The Beatles,
373
,
446
,
626
,
669

"Beats,"
374
,
408
,
409
–10,
670

Beckwith, Byron De La,
481
–82n

Beck, Dave,
326

Belgian Congo,
286

Belgium,
167
n

Bell, Daniel,
12
,
344
,
442
,
651

The End of Ideology
,
339

Bellow, Saul,
345

"Ben Casey,"
319

Ben-Hur
(film),
329

Bennett, Tapley,
611

Benny, Jack,
31
,
350

Berle, Milton,
349

Berlin, Irving,
12
,
33

Berlin (city),
424
–25,
427
,
429
,
497
–98,
501
–2,
517

Berlin Blockade/Airlift,
134
,
160
,
170
,
183
,
286

Bernstein, Carl,
774

Bernstein, Leonard,
238
,
373
,
476

Berrigan, Rev. Philip,
630

Berry, Chuck,
30
,
371
,
408

Bertolucci, Bernardo,
711

Bessie, Alvah,
190

The Best and the Brightest
(Halberstam),
614

The Best Years of Our Lives
(film),
14
,
15

"The Beverly Hillbillies,"
454

Beyond the Melting Pot
(Glazer & Moynihan),
328

Biden, Joseph,
764
n

Birch Society.
See
John Birch Society

Birmingham: and FBI,
476
–77

freedom rides,
469

labor organizing in,
53

protest in,
403
,
444
,
478
–81

racial violence,
396
,
484
,
579

segregation in,
382

Bissell, Richard,
493
,
496
,
498

Black, Hugo,
192
,
388
,
416
,
567
,
733
,
757

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