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Dennis, Eugene, 235, 236, 242, 262
DeNunzio, Frank, 13
Depression, Great, 21, 23, 27, 28, 30, 31, 71, 73–74, 135, 138, 139
Detroit, Mich., 13–14, 18, 58, 79, 328, 351
defense industry in, 18, 170–71, 233
HUAC hearings in, see House Committee on Un-American Activities, Detroit hearings of
racial issues in, 170–71, 172, 233–35
Young as mayor of, 10, 64, 353
Detroit Free Press, 36, 62, 63–64, 68, 119, 149, 297
Detroit News, 36, 86, 150, 153, 154
Detroit Police Department, 39, 123
Red Squad, 35, 40, 61, 262, 278
Detroit Tigers, 74–75, 265, 274, 275, 328, 358
Detroit Times, 14, 151
Maraniss at, 14, 120–23, 157, 160, 162–63, 169, 261, 263, 269–71, 277, 281, 282, 288, 296, 306, 350–52
Maraniss fired from, 4, 10, 121, 123, 149, 281, 284, 286, 288, 295, 296, 329, 350, 351
Devil in Massachusetts, The (Starkey), 292–93
Dewey, Thomas E., 130
Dial, Thelma, 245
Dies, Martin, 40, 55, 145, 246, 254
committee of, 40, 142, 146
Dirksen, Everett, 316
Disraeli, Benjamin, 24, 28
Doby, Larry, 313
Dole, Bob, 255
Douglas, William O., 307–8
Duane, William, 290
Du Bois, W.E.B., 353
Dunlap, Edgar, 321
Eby, Cecil, 94, 100–101, 107, 116
Edmonds, Alan, 329
Edmonds, Barbara Cummins (aunt), 73, 74, 125, 189, 231, 270, 273, 274, 329, 360
Edmonds, John, 273, 274, 329
Edmonds, Peggy, 270, 274, 278, 327, 329
Edson, Peter, 248
Einstein, Albert, 28
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 203, 209–10, 248, 280, 307, 316–21, 331
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 28, 29, 30, 136, 148, 222, 304, 349
English, Richard, 298
Evanoff, Michael, 103
Evans, Orrin C., 185
Evashevski, Forest, 139
Evjue, William T., 340, 344, 348, 349
Fair Employment Practices Commission, 232–33
Fair Labor Standards Act, 232
Farrell, John A., 251
fascism, 8, 28, 30, 33, 41, 66–67, 80, 81, 83, 125, 133–34, 140, 141, 181, 191, 243, 266, 291, 309, 335
Fearing, Kenneth, 142
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 18, 20, 35, 61, 151, 161, 164, 234, 254, 260, 272, 308, 310, 320, 353
Elliott Maraniss and, 260, 262–63, 266, 267, 271, 276–78, 296, 314–15, 329, 331, 336, 345, 350
informants of, see informants
Feingold, Martha K., 32
Feldman, Eugene, 339, 344
Feldman, Joe, 80–81
Feller, Bob, 313
Fellows, Robert, 298–300
Ferguson, Homer, 38
Field, Marshall, III, 263
Fifteenth Amendment, 348
Fifth Amendment, 3, 35, 62, 63, 65, 87–89, 151, 250, 252–53, 257, 282–86, 290, 295, 315, 319, 325
Fineberg, Mel, 124, 134, 138, 144
Finland, 144–46, 164
First Amendment, 36, 79, 235, 249, 253, 278, 289, 295
Flanagan, Dennis, 134, 144
Flanders, Ralph, 317
Flint, Mich., strike in, 81, 82, 128
Foley Square trial, 10, 36, 62, 152–53, 227–30, 235–45, 246, 267, 271, 278, 307–8, 324–26, 353
Ford, Ford Madox, 130
Ford, Gerald, 124, 232, 256
Ford, Henry, 19, 141
Ford, Robert, 176
Ford Motor Company, 18–20, 61, 64, 233, 269
Foster, William Z., 235
Fowler, William, 250
France, 139–41
France, Royal W., 321
Franco, Francisco, 9, 80, 81, 83, 90–92, 100, 101, 103–6, 125, 140, 191, 327
Frank, Leo, 44–53, 56, 322, 354
Frankfurter, Felix, 307–8
Freedom of Information Act, 161
free speech, 10, 142, 253, 278, 295
Foley Square trial and, 227, 228, 243
Friar, Kiman, 143–44
Ganley, Nat, 16
Garcia, Mike, 313
García Lorca, Federico, 21
Gargoyle, 147
Gates, John, 235
Gedeon, Elmer, 82
General Motors, 81
George, Harold M. J., 160, 163
Georgia, 43–45, 55, 66, 251, 252
Georgia Tech, 231–32
Germany, see Nazi Germany
Gies, Joseph, 126
Gilbert, Ronnie, 326
Gilmore, Eddy, 37
Girl Scouts, 319
Glass, Carter, 223–24
Gollner, Bobbie, 153, 154
Gollner, John, 50, 56–57, 154
Gollner, Joseph H., 153–54
Goodman, Barbara, 273
Goodman, Ernie, 234–35, 309
Goodman, Peggy, 169, 170, 273
Goodman, Walter, 246
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck), 146–47
Great Britain, 139–41
Guernica, 91–92
Gulag Archipelago, The (Solzhenitsyn), 60
Haessler, Carl, 338
Hagen’s Recess Tavern, 70–71, 82, 104, 124
Hairston, Gene, 150
Halberstam, David, 38
Halleck, Charles, 249
Hampton, Nigel, 339, 340, 344, 350
Hand, Learned, 278, 295
Harmon, Tom, 139, 147
Hart, Philip A., 255, 354
Hasty, Arthur, 55–56
Hasty, Frank, 55–56
Hasty, Keller, 55–56
Hays, Lee, 326
Hayworth, Rita, 269–70
Hellerman, Fred, 326
Hemingway, Ernest, 93, 99, 107, 110–12, 130
Hennings, Thomas, 322
Henry, Bill, 209
Herblock, 272
Hetzel, E. S., 168
Higgins, Mary, 311
Hill, Charles A., 61–64
Hirohito, Emperor, 219, 220
Hiss, Alger, 229–30, 317
Hitler, Adolf, 8, 31, 32, 75, 80, 83, 91, 100, 126, 139–42, 172, 177, 203, 218, 227, 233, 243
Ho Chi Minh, 70
Hochschild, Adam, 101, 140
Hodges, Courtney H., 175
Holcombe, Bertha, 56
Holiday, 310
Hollomon, James A., 52
Hollywood, 18, 36, 40, 41, 86, 249, 253, 256, 295, 297–300, 321, 332, 333
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 28
Holt, Charles, 290
Honors at Dawn (Miller), 82
Hoover, J. Edgar, 20, 235, 309, 333, 344
Hopper, Hedda, 36, 269
Horkan, George A., 184, 185, 187–88
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), 5–6, 19, 86, 229–30, 246, 249, 250, 253, 254, 256, 272, 306, 309, 316, 319, 320, 348, 354
Baldwin and, 14, 20, 118–23, 150, 285–86, 320, 355
Big Jim McLain and, 298–300
as Dies Committee, 40, 142, 146
Fifth Amendment rights and, 250, 252–53, 257, 319, 325, 334, 335
Hollywood and, 18, 36, 40, 41, 86, 249, 253, 256, 295, 297–300, 321, 332, 333
Kazan and, 293–94, 325
Miller and, 332–35, 345
Potter on, 254, 256–57, 318
Robinson and, 41–42, 58
Salem witchcraft trials compared with, 290, 293–95
Seeger and, 324–26
Tavenner on, 252–53, 256, 319, 324–26, 334, 354
Wood on, 41–42, 240, 246, 250, 252–53, 256, 294, 319–21
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), Detroit hearings of, 6, 9–10, 17–18, 35–42, 58–69, 118–23, 128, 150–52, 278, 297–98, 304, 315, 353, 360–61
Baldwin’s naming of Maraniss as communist at, 4, 18, 20, 121–22, 149, 285–86
Baldwin’s testimony a
t, 14, 20, 118–23, 150, 285–86, 320
Crockett in, 10, 61–62, 64, 227, 266, 267, 280–84
Cummins’s subpoena for, 278
Cummins’s testimony at, 9, 68–69, 86–89, 305, 361
disputes over televising of, 38–39, 150
and dossiers on suspects, 35
factory worker walkouts and, 151
Fifth Amendment rights and, 3, 35, 62, 63, 65, 87–89, 151, 282–86, 295, 315
firings and evictions of people named in, 150
Hill’s testimony at, 61–64
Jackson in, 38–39, 58, 60, 63, 118–19, 123, 285–87
Maraniss’s statement for, 3–5, 10–11, 30, 121, 154, 166, 288–91, 294–95, 348, 349, 352
Maraniss’s subpoena for, 4, 120–21, 279, 281, 284, 286, 295
Maraniss’s testimony at, 3, 150, 280–87, 294, 295, 315, 350, 357, 361
politics and, 151–52
Potter in, 9, 35–36, 39, 58, 59, 65–67, 118, 123, 152, 174, 316
prehearing interviews, 18
protesters at, 39–41
racial issues and, 58–68
Tavenner in, 9, 39, 58, 59, 61–65, 68–69, 86–89, 118, 120–22, 217, 221, 226, 280–83, 285–86, 297
Wood in, 3, 4, 9, 38, 40, 52, 55, 57, 60–62, 66, 118, 119, 123, 153, 154, 226, 240, 280, 282–87
Young’s testimony at, 9–10, 58, 64–68, 266, 353
Hughes, Langston, 172
Hull, Cordell, 103, 104
Hunter, John Patrick, 348
informants, 15, 35, 39, 150, 166, 235, 260, 262, 267
Baldwin, see Baldwin, Bereniece
Ingles, William, 248
Inouye, Daniel, 255
International Typographical Union (ITU), 337, 339, 342–44
Invaders, The, 158
Italy, 30, 80, 133
Jackson, Donald, 38–39, 58, 60, 63, 118–19, 123, 256, 285–87, 298
Jackson, Harry G., 176
Jackson, Henry, 316
Jackson, James E., 266
Jackson, Morton, 32
Jackson, Robert H., 308
Japan, 203, 207, 217–18, 225
atomic bombing of, 208, 261
Okinawa, 10, 193, 207–11, 217, 262, 288
Pearl Harbor attack, 10, 157, 163, 190, 218, 261, 288
Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, 9, 217–21, 224–26, 252, 354
Jefferson, Thomas, 28, 198, 290
Jefferson School of Social Science, 267
Jewish Cultural Center, 271, 278, 308
Jews, 24, 29, 40, 134, 140, 243
anti-Semitism and, 8, 23–24, 46, 125, 335
Marranos, 23–24, 28, 211, 294
Jim Crow laws, 55, 58, 59, 64, 66, 170, 172, 180, 181, 184, 230, 244, 247
Johnson, Chas D., 103, 104
Johnson, Jesse, 180, 184–85
Johnson, Lyndon B., 357
Jones, Bobby, 54, 320, 321
Jones, Robert Permedus, 54
Jones, Robert Tyre, Sr. (R.T.), 54
Jones, W. Jackson, 18, 120–21
Justice Department, U.S., 13, 218, 221, 254
Karle, Jerome, 30
Kates, Howard A. W., 167
Kazan, Elia, 293–94, 325
Kazan, Molly, 294
Keenan, Joseph B., 218–19, 224
Kefauver, Estes, 38, 280
Keltz, Leo B., 239
Kennedy, Arthur, 310
King, Gilbert, 42
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 353
Korean War, 37, 153, 253, 254, 272, 280, 312
Maraniss in, 211–14, 262
Kornberg, Arthur, 30
Koscinski, Arthur A., 35, 39
Ku Klux Klan, 40, 47, 241, 246, 266
Wood and, 9, 53, 55–56, 322
Labor Department, U.S., 232, 255
Labor’s Daily, 336–44, 351
labor unions, 18–19, 41, 71, 79, 152, 227, 241, 269, 330, 337
Taft-Hartley Act and, 247–49, 266
LaFollette, Bob, 348
LaMotta, Jake, 150
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain, 170
Landrum, Phil, 320
Lardner, James, 110, 113–15, 249
Lardner, Ring, 110, 249
Lardner, Ring, Jr., 41, 115, 249–50
Lash, Joseph P., 141, 144–45, 263
Lazarus, Emma, 304
League of Nations, 114, 144
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 206
Lee, Robert E., 55, 180
Lee, Ulysses, 180–81
Lemon, Bob, 313
Lenin, Vladimir, 236, 267
Lewis, Guy, 339, 344
Lincoln, Abraham, 28, 55, 198, 206
Lincoln Log, 29–31, 329
Lindbergh, Charles, 141
Linder, Morton, 138, 142, 144, 147–48
Los Angeles Examiner, 269
Los Angeles Times, 269
Louis, Joe, 68
Lutz, William W., 86
lynchings, 41, 42, 43, 66, 68, 244
of Frank, 44, 47–53, 56, 322, 354
Lyon, Matthew, 290
MacArthur, Douglas, 209, 219
Mackenzie, William Lyon, 93
Madison, Wisc., 345, 347, 349–52, 357
Maraniss family’s move to, 6, 345–46
Magdol, Ed, 99
Mann, Alonzo, 46–47
Maranda, W. F., 161–67, 169
Maraniss, Celia (aunt), 21
Maraniss, Celia (great aunt), 24, 25, 33, 134–35
Maraniss, Elliott “Ace” (father), 124–48, 361
America as viewed by, 135–37, 161, 201, 209, 214, 304, 349
Baldwin’s naming as communist, 4, 18, 20, 121–22, 149, 266, 278, 285–86, 329, 344, 350
baseball and, 22, 23, 31, 82, 129, 159, 163, 265, 274–76
birth of, 6
blacklisting of, 5, 10, 288, 329, 330, 337, 352
in Boy Scouts, 22–23, 29–30, 160
at Capital Times, 5, 145, 344–45, 348–50, 351
childhood in Brooklyn, 6, 21–23, 304
at Cleveland Plain Dealer, 311, 314, 315, 351
as commander of all-black company, 3, 173, 179–88, 192–94, 196, 202–14, 266
communist involvement of, 7–8, 132, 149–50, 154, 163–64, 166–67, 262–63, 294, 304, 315, 329, 339, 345, 350, 352, 359–60
at Daily Compass, 303, 305–7, 351
death of, 200, 360
at Detroit Times, 14, 120–23, 157, 160, 162–63, 169, 261, 263, 269–71, 277, 281, 282, 288, 296, 306, 350–52
essays of, 131–33, 134–38, 146–47
FBI and, 260, 262–63, 266, 267, 271, 276–78, 296, 314–15, 329, 331, 336, 345, 350
fired from Detroit Times, 4, 10, 121, 123, 149, 281, 284, 286, 288, 295, 296, 329, 350, 351
fired from Plain Dealer, 315–16, 329
gravestone of, 361
in high school, 29–34, 77, 80, 136, 304, 349
honeymoon of, 144–45
HUAC testimony of, 3, 150, 280–87, 294, 295, 315, 350, 357, 361
“It could be worse” motto of, 7, 328, 346, 360
in Korean War, 211–14, 262
at Labor’s Daily, 336–44, 351
letter to Jim on fighting in World War II, 195–99, 200, 357
at Lincoln Log, 29–31, 329
Mary’s correspondence with, 134, 157–59, 181–83, 185–88, 192–94, 200–201, 203, 207–14, 217–18, 349
Mary’s dating of, 138–39
Mary’s marriage to, 123, 143–44, 161, 163–64
Mary’s meeting of, 117, 123, 128
at Michigan Daily, 106, 117, 124, 126, 129–31, 133–48, 162–66, 201
Michigan Herald and, 263–65, 267, 331
in Michigansian yearbook, 147
military investigation of, 161–67, 169, 190
military transfer of, 168–69
name of, 25
as newspaperman, 3, 5, 7, 14, 23, 31, 40, 106, 117, 129, 149, 200–201, 263, 266, 269, 288, 295–96, 314, 329, 336–38, 340, 348–52
as New York Times str
inger, 31, 350
officer training and, 160, 163, 167–68
at Organizational Services, 329–31, 336
photographer incident and, 147–48
in photographs, 259, 303
politics of, 7–8, 129, 159, 162–66, 181, 262, 277, 295, 296, 339, 349
in Quartermaster Corps, 167–68, 173, 179, 188
Spanish Civil War and, 103, 132–33
statement to HUAC, 3–5, 10–11, 30, 121, 154, 166, 288–91, 294–95, 348, 349, 352
subpoenaed by HUAC, 4, 120–21, 279, 281, 284, 286, 295
at University of Michigan, 33, 77, 82, 124–25, 129–30, 134, 136–38, 146, 147, 160–64
Wendy and, 327, 360
World War II service of, 3, 10, 157–70, 172–73, 179–88, 192–94, 195–99, 202–14, 217, 260–61, 281, 282, 286, 288, 296, 329
Maraniss, Esocher (great-grandfather), 24
Maraniss, Fanny Spergol (great-grandmother), 24, 25
Maraniss, Hilda (great aunt), 24
Maraniss, Hyman (Herman) (great uncle), 24, 25, 33
Maraniss, Ida Balin (grandmother), 21, 22, 25, 33, 304
Maraniss, James Elliott “Jim” (brother), 6, 128, 129, 149–50, 154, 259, 261, 268, 270, 271, 276, 277, 303, 305–7, 311–14, 327, 328, 331–32, 337, 342, 350, 352, 357, 359–61
birth of, 193, 210
Elliott’s letter to, 195–99, 200, 357
letter to Bob from, 360–61
Mary’s pregnancy with, 181, 188–92
Maraniss, Jean (sister), 149, 200, 210, 259, 268, 270, 271, 277, 303, 305, 307, 311–13, 328, 330, 331, 337, 338, 341, 357, 360, 361
Maraniss, Joseph (grandfather), 21, 22, 24, 25, 33, 134, 165, 304
Maraniss, Louis (great uncle), 24
Maraniss, Mary Cummins (mother), 73, 97, 117, 125–28, 139, 162, 164, 169, 170, 172, 200, 231, 261–62, 268, 277, 303, 312, 313, 315, 328, 331, 336, 340, 341, 345–46, 347, 352, 357–58, 361
American Student Union and, 125, 126, 142, 144, 145
Baldwin’s naming as communist, 122–23, 210
beliefs of, 210–11
childhood of, 126–27
communist involvement of, 8, 165, 210, 261–62, 304, 313–15, 352, 357–61
David’s birth and, 270–71
death of, 360
driving accident and, 303
Elliott’s correspondence with, 134, 157–59, 181–83, 185–88, 192–94, 200–201, 203, 207–14, 217–18, 349
Elliott’s dating of, 138–39
in Elliott’s letter to Jim, 195–99
Elliott’s marriage to, 123, 143–44, 161, 163–64
Elliott’s meeting of, 117, 123, 128
honeymoon of, 144–45
jobs of, 145, 170, 171, 210, 315
operation of, 277
Phil’s correspondence with, 172, 188–89, 191–92, 261, 268, 270–71, 277, 311, 327, 346
in photographs, 259, 303
pregnancy and birth of Jim, 181, 188–93
Maraniss, Wendy (sister), 327, 328, 337, 360, 361