propaganda:
Kuwaiti, 476
Soviet, 255
U.S., 214, 262, 372–75
Propaganda Technique in the World War (Laswell), 10–11
ProPublica, 590
prostitution, 16–17
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 52–53, 79–80
public opinion, control of, 10–12
Public Opinion (Lippmann), 43
Public Works Administration (PWA), 50, 51, 62
Puck, xix, xxiii
Puerto Rico, xvi, 347
U.S. annexation of, xxii, xxiii
Pugwash Conference, 282
Putin, Vladimir, 486, 538, 539–40, 613
G. W. Bush and, 536–37
Qatar, 105, 544
Quadrennial Defense Review, 2010, 609
Quainton, Anthony, 422, 430
Quarterly Review of Commerce, 50–52
racism, 59, 59, 92, 151, 466, 492, 524, 550
of Allies, 32
Japanese internment and, 151–57, 153, 155
U.S., 234
Wilson and, 1–2, 44
Radford, Arthur, 255, 267, 268
radicalism, popular, 60–61
railroad strikes, xix, xxi
Ramparts, 338
RAND Corporation, 215, 257, 286, 302, 303, 360, 383, 384, 461
rape, 427–28
of Chinese women by Japanese soldiers, 85, 88, 150
in El Salvador, 432
of German women by Russians, 127
of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, 510
of Vietnamese women, 367
Rasoli, Hameed, 506–7
Rauschenbusch, Stephen, 65–66
Rayburn, Sam, 118, 281
Reagan, Nancy, 445
Reagan, Ronald, xxxi, 50, 212, 323, 392, 412, 425, 432, 444–45, 466, 536, 566, 567, 576, 601
administration of, 429, 471, 473, 482, 532
anti-Soviet viewpoint of, 407, 426, 440–47
bargaining over hostages by, 420
on CPD, 399, 436, 445
El Salvador and, 431–34
and fall of Berlin Wall, 421
fantasies and inventions of, 422–24, 430–31
foreign perceptions of, 444–45
Gorbachev and, 446–55, 449, 453, 466, 467, 468
Grenada invasion of, 434–36, 437
intellectual limitations of, 421–23, 423, 425, 429, 445, 454
Iran-Contra scandal and, 455, 456–59
military buildup of, 436
in negotiations with Gorbachev, 447–56
Nicaragua and, 431, 455–59
nuclear war feared by, 441–42
religious convictions of, 441
reputation and legacy of, 421, 461–62
as right-wing extremist, 399, 400, 417
SDI and, 442–43, 448, 451–55, 462
social programs cut by, 436–38, 462
on superiority of capitalism, 426
on Vietnam, 434
Red Army, 28, 95, 97, 102, 103, 106, 108, 111, 114, 115, 126, 127–28, 172, 175, 209
Red-baiting, 206, 221, 231–34
“Red Channels,” 233
Red Scare, 233, 235
Haymarket riots and, xx
Reich, Robert, 547, 553
Republican Guard, Iraqi, 478
Republican National Committee, 206
Republican National Convention:
of 2004, 512
of 2008, 512
Republican party, xiv, 6, 40, 61, 65, 90, 93, 140, 148, 200, 206, 223, 236, 242, 247, 278, 306, 322, 385, 417, 424, 484, 490, 492, 494, 496, 518, 524, 551, 559, 560, 567, 592, 609, 615
right wing of, 55, 63, 492
Republican (St. Louis, Mo.), xix
Reston, James, 202, 256–57, 296, 332, 392
Rhee, Syngman, 236, 251
Rhodes, Richard, 286, 454
Rice, Condoleezza, 140, 496–98, 500–501, 509, 511, 512, 515
Ridgway, Matthew, 244
Ríos Montt, Efraín, 428, 430
Rise and Fall of Great Powers, The (Kennedy), xvi
Risen, James, 563–64
Ritter, Scott, 515–16
Robeson, Paul, 84, 200, 234
Rockefeller, David, 372, 401–2, 410, 464
Rockefeller, Nelson, 122, 322, 359–60, 365, 399
Rockefeller oil, 80, 424
Rodman, Peter, 524, 685n
Roe v. Wade, 530
Rogers, Will, 46, 47
Rogers, William, 360, 362, 372–73, 394
Roman Empire, xvi, 19
Romania, 33, 38, 87, 90, 111, 113, 114, 209, 537
Rome, 356, 524
Romer, Christine, 552, 554–55
Romney, Mitt, 560
Rongelap, 270–71
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 77, 93, 118, 121, 193, 202, 230, 287–88
Roosevelt, Elliott, 112, 200
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 39–40, 142, 142, 180, 189, 190, 193, 194, 200, 216, 318, 550, 557–58
administration of, 64, 83, 92, 123
as anticolonial, 112–13
Atlantic Charter and, 98, 99, 102–3, 464
atomic bomb program and, 133–34
balance between Britain and Soviets achieved by, 182–84
on banking crisis, 47–49
business community opposed by, 61, 63
on costs of war, 505–6
H. Wallace selected by, 90, 92
illness and death of, 113, 120–21, 121, 124, 139, 142, 143, 194
inaction in Spain by, 84–85
inauguration of, 45–47, 47, 49
isolationism and, 83
lend-lease program of, 89–90, 93–94, 95
on Munich agreement, 88
munitions hearings and, 66–67, 69–70, 71
New Deal of, 49–58, 61–63, 90–92, 93, 101, 193, 354, 400–401
postwar vision of, 103
“unconditional surrender” language of, 146
on ungrateful capitalists, 557–58
in World War II, 96–100, 102–4, 108–17, 119, 122–23, 125, 128–29, 131, 138, 152, 157, 189
at Yalta Conference, 114–17, 118, 164, 216–17
Roosevelt, Henry L., 69
Roosevelt, James, 193–94
Roosevelt, Kermit “Kim,” 259–60, 263
Roosevelt, Quentin, 7–8
Roosevelt, Theodore, xxvi, xxviii, xxx, 1, 6, 7–8, 39, 43, 259, 289, 370
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 7
Root, Elihu, xxviii, xxx
Rosen, Steven, 687n
Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 231, 251
Ross, Dennis, 601
Rostow, Eugene, 156, 399
Rostow, Walt, 292, 305, 340
Rotblat, Joseph, 143, 144, 160, 180, 280
Rotterdam, 81, 157
Royal Air Force, British, 23, 89
Royal Dutch Shell, 38, 39
Rubin, Robert, 551–52, 566
Rumsfeld, Donald, xv–xvi, 399, 400, 439, 490, 491, 496, 498, 503, 512, 542, 685n
high-tech weapons and, 507
on Iraq, 502, 503, 513, 515–16, 522, 525–26, 529, 530
larger agenda of, 504–5, 511
Rusk, Dean, 236, 291–92, 298, 319, 325, 329, 337, 339, 344, 349, 367, 399
Russell, Bertrand, 280
Russell-Einstein Manifesto of 1955, 280
Russia, 4, 9, 31, 43, 482, 488, 569, 576, 609, 610–11, 613
Bolsheviks in, 9–10, 26–30, 28, 33, 128
China’s ties with, 540
counterrevolution in, 28–30
G. W. Bush and, 536–42
nuclear weapons in, 486, 539–41
oil from, 4
post-Soviet, 484–86
Soviet nostalgia in, 538
in World War I, 5, 26, 87
see also Soviet Union
Russian Academy of Sciences, 541
Russian Bureau, U.S., 253
Russian Revolution, 26–27, 34, 35, 87, 95, 97, 101, 109, 253, 307