American exceptionalism
American founding: freedom and; slavery and
American Revolution
American universalism
Amin, Samir
Analects (Confucius)
Anglicans
Annan, Kofi
anti-Americanism: Asian; French; Islamic; multiculturalism and. See also America
Anti-Defamation League
Aristotle
Artist Formerly Known as Prince
Asia: American foreign policy and; American ideas and; Islamic civilization and; liberation movements and; Western civilization and
Asian-Americans
assimilation
Athens
Atta, Muhammad
Attila the Hun
Augustine, Saint
authenticity, ethic of
Averroes
Avicenna
Aztecs
Babbit, Irving
Baghdad
Bandung conference
Banfield, Edward
Bauer, Gary
Bauer, Peter
Beamer, Todd
Bell, Derrick
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray)
Belloc, Hilaire
Bellow, Saul
Benedict, Ruth
Bennett, Bill
Berlin Wall
bin Laden, Osama; Islam and; terrorism and; wealth of
Blair, Tony
Bloom, Allan
Bork, Robert
Bosnia
bourgeois
Bové, José
Boyle
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh)
Brown, Donald
Brown v. Board of Education
Buchanan, Patrick
Buddhism
Burke, Edmund
Burnham, James
Bury, J. B.
Bush, George
Cairo
Camp David
capitalism: morality and; September 11 attacks and; socialism and; as Western institution
Catholics
Cheng Ho. See Zheng He
Chile
China; civilization of; ethnocentrism and; invention and
Chinweizu
Chomsky, Noam
Christendom. See Western civilization
Christianity: America and; Islam vs.; Jerusalem and; progress and
Civil Rights Act of 1964
civil rights movements
Civil War
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Huntington)
Clausewitz, Karl
Clinton, Bill
CNN
Cochran, Johnnie
Cold War
colonialism: Europe and; Western civilization and
Columbus
Condit, Gary
Confessions (Rousseau)
Confucianism
Confucius
Congressional Black Caucus
conservatism
Constitution
Copernicus
Crusades
cultural equality, multiculturalism and
Culture and Imperialism (Said)
Cuomo, Mario
D’Souza, Dinesh: American appeal and; background of
Damascus
Dark Ages
Darwin, Charles
The Death of the West (Buchanan)
Declaration of Independence
democracy: Plato and; as Western institution
Democratic National Convention
The De-Moralization of Society (Himmelfarb)
Denny’s
Diamond, Jared
Dickens, Charles
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (Rousseau)
diversity
Dornbusch, Sanford
Douglass, Frederick
Dred Scott decision
DuBois, W. E. B.
Dukakis, Michael
Eastern Europe
“economy class syndrome,”
Education of Cyrus (Xenophon)
Egypt
Ehrenreich, Barbara
El Sawy, Nada
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Emile (Rousseau)
The End of History and the Last Man (Fukuyama)
England: India and; religion and
Enlightenment
equality: Athens and; cultural; law and; terrorism and
ethic of authenticity
ethnocentrism: China and; Western civilization and
Euphrates River
Eurocentrism
Eurocentrism (Amin)
Europe: colonialism and; Islamic civilization and; per capita income of
Fair Housing Bill
Falwell, Jerry
Family Research Council
Fanon, Frantz
al-Farabi
FBI. See Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federalist Papers
feminism
Fertile Crescent
First Things
Fish, Stanley
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Foreman, George
Franklin, John Hope
freedom: abuses of; American founding and; language of; law and; Rousseau and; sacrifice and; slavery vs.; types of
French, anti-Americanism and
Freud, Sigmund
Friedman, Milton
Fuhrman, Mark
Fukuyama, Francis
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gates, Bill
Gatsby, Jay
Gatz, James
Gaza
Genghis Khan
The Geography Behind History
Germany
Ghana
al-Ghazali
Gibson, Mel
Gingrich, Newt
Ginsberg, Allen
Glazer, Nathan
Gore, Al
government, religion and
Granada
Great Depression
The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
Great Satan. See America
Great Society
Greeks
Grenada
group differences, racism and
Gulf War
gunboat diplomacy
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)
Hacker, Andrew
Haiti
Hamilton, Alexander
Havel, Vaclav
Hawaii
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry, Patrick
Herodotus
Herrnstein, Richard
Himmelfarb, Gertrude
Hinduism
Hitchens, Christopher
Hitler, Adolf
Hobbes, Thomas
Human Universals (Brown)
Huntington, Samuel
Hurston, Zora Neale
Husayn, Taha
Hussein, Saddam
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
Ibn Sinha (Avicenna)
The Idea of Progress (Bury)
immigrants: American appeal and; assimilation and; assimilation of; minorities vs.; racism and
immorality. See morality
imperialism
The Incoherence of Philosophy (al-Ghazali)
Index of Leading Cultural Indicators (Bennett)
India: British rule of; civilization of; Western civilization and
Indus River
Iqbal, Muhammad
Iran
Iraq
Islam: Allah and; America vs.; anti-Americanism and; Christianity vs.; civilization of; decline of; law of; radical; Sparta vs.; terrorism and; threat of; threat to; true; Western immorality and
Israel
Istanbul
Jackson, Jesse
Jaffa, Harry
jahiliyya
Japan
Jay, John
Jefferson, Thomas; slavery and
Jencks, Christopher
Jerusalem
jihad; Muslims and
John Paul II
Johnson, Sa
muel
Judaism
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Kepler, Johannes
Khalsa, Guru
Khomeini, Ayatollah
al-Kindi
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Rodney
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
Kissinger, Henry
Know-Nothing party
Koran
Kristol, Irving
Ku Klux Klan
Kuwait
Landes, David
Laski, Harold
Latin America: American foreign policy and; American ideas and; democracy in; dictatorships in; Western civilization and
Lerner, Michael
Lerner, Ralph
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Lewinsky, Monica
Lewis, Bernard
liberation movements
Libya
Lincoln, Abraham
Locke, John
Lugard, Lord
Macaulay, Thomas
Madhubuti, Haki
Madison, James
Madonna
Malaysia
Malcolm X
Mali
Marcos, Ferdinand
Marshall, John
Marx, Karl
Maryland
Massachusetts
Mazrui, Ali
McCullough, David
McDonald’s
McNeill, William
Melzer, Arthur
Middle Ages
Middle East
Mill, John Stuart
Milton, John
Ming dynasty
minorities: America and; assimilation of; immigrants vs.
Mongols
Moralia (Plutarch)
morality: America and; capitalism and; technology and
Morrison, Toni
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick
Muhammad
multiculturalism: American appeal and; anti-Americanism and; assimilation and; cultural equality and; diversity and; oppression theory and; racism and; Western civilization and
The Muqaddimah (Khaldun)
Murray, Charles
Musharaff, Pervez
Muslim Brotherhood
Muslims: Allah and; jihad and; Koran and; September 11 attacks and; terrorism and. See also Islam
NAACP. See National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Naipaul. S.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Basketball Association (NBA)
nativism
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Newsweek
Newton, Isaac
New York
New Yorker
Nicaragua
Nicholson, Jack
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nile River
Nisbet, Robert
“noble savage,”
Non-Aligned Nations
Nussbaum, Martha
O’Reilly, Bill
Ogletree, Charles
Omar, Mullah
oppression theory
Orientalism (Said)
Ottoman Empire
Paine, Thomas
Pakistan
Palestine Liberation Organization
Paradise Lost (Milton)
The Patriot
patriotism: African-Americans and; American Indians and; basis of; conservatism and; nativism vs.
Patterson, Orlando
Paul, Saint
Pearl Harbor
Peloponnesian War
Pentagon
A People’s History of the United States (Zinn)
Pericles
Persians
Pinochet, Augusto
Plagues and Peoples (McNeill)
Planet America
Plato
Plutarch
Presley, Elvis
printing
progress
Puritans
“pursuit of happiness,”
Qutb, Sayyid
racial preferences
racism: African-Americans and; in America; assimilation and; civil rights movements and; group differences and; immigrants and; multiculturalism and; preferences and; Western civilization and
Reagan, Ronald
Reformation
religion: America and; civilization and; government and; Western civilization and
Renaissance
Republic (Plato)
Ricci, Matteo
Rieff, David
Roberts, J. M.
Robinson, Randall
Rodman, Dennis
Rodney, Walter
Roman Empire
Roosevelt, Teddy
Roque, Frank
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: Augustine vs.; bourgeois and; ethic of authenticity and; freedom and; social revolution and
“Rumble in the Jungle,”
Rumsfeld, Donald
Rushdie, Salman
Said, Edward
Salah-al-Din
Sartre, Jean Paul
SAT. See Scholastic Assessment Test
The Satanic Verses (Rushdie)
Saudi Arabia
The Savage Mind (Lévi-Strauss)
Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT)
science, as Western institution
Scientific Revolution
September 11 attacks; America and; bin Laden and; courage and; motivation of; Muslims and; myths regarding; targets of
Seville
Shakespeare, William
sharia
Simpson, O. J.
Singapore
slavery: African-Americans and; American founding and; Constitution and; Declaration of Independence and; freedom vs.; oppression theory and; Western civilization and
Slavery and Social Death (Patterson)
Slouching Towards Gomorrah (Bork)
Smith, Adam
socialism
Social Security
Socrates
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
Sombart, Werner
Somoza, Anastasio
Songhay
South America
Soviet Union
Sowell, Thomas
Spanish Inquisition
Spartans
Stalin, Joseph
Steele, Shelby
Stern, Howard
Sudan
Suicide of the West (Burnham)
Survivor
Taliban regime
Taney, Roger Brooke
Tarcov, Nathan
Taylor, Charles
technology
terrorism: America and; equality and; Islam and; war against
Texaco
Third World
Thoreau, Henry David
Tigris River
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Traschen, Jennie
Tristes Tropiques (Lévi-Strauss)
Turks
Tuskegee Institute
United Nations
United States. See America
utopia
Vajpayee, Atal Behari
Vedrine, Hubert
Vietnam
Virginia
Voltaire
Voting Rights Act
Washington, Booker T.
Washington Post
Waugh, Evelyn
The Wealth of Nations (Smith)
We Are All Multiculturalists Now (Glazer)
West, Cornel
Western civilization: colonialism and; dominance of; early; ethnocentrism and; Eurocentrism and; India and; influence of; institutions of; liberation movements and; multiculturalism and; oppression and; racism and; religion and; slavery and; success of; superiority of. See also America
White House
White House Years (Kissinger)
Whitney, Eli
Wilde, Oscar
Williams, Montel
Wilson, James
Wilson, William Julius
Winfrey, Oprah
Wolfe, Tom
women
Woo
dward. Vann
World
World Conference on Racism
World Trade Center
World War I
World War II
Xenophon
Yellow River
Yew, Lee Kuan
Zaire
Zheng He
Zinn, Howard
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What’s so great about America / Dinesh D’Souza
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1. United States—Civilization. 2. National characteristics,
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