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by Christopher Hitchens


  Abu Ghraib prison, 258

  Acheson, Dean, 92, 96

  Acropolis, 238, 240

  Acropolis Museum, 240–42

  Acropolis Restoration Service, 235

  Adamic, Louis, 26

  Adams, John, 44

  Adler, Georg, et al., eds., The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, 273–79

  Afghanistan, war in, 119–20

  Africa, Guevara in, 13–14, 15

  “After Strange Gods” (Eliot), 80

  After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World (Wilson), 91–96

  Age of Jackson, The (Schlesinger), 202

  Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 248, 249, 265

  AIDS, 252

  Akçam, Taner, 35

  Akhmatova, Anna, 150

  Alamo, 80

  Albright, Madeleine, 255

  Alexander the Great, 3

  “ ‘Alimentary, Dr. Leiter’: Anal Anxiety in Diamonds Are Forever” (Allen), 97–98

  Al Jazeera, 106–7, 112

  Allen, Dennis W., “ ‘Alimentary, Dr. Leiter’: Anal Anxiety in Diamonds Are Forever,” 97–98

  Allen, George, 75

  Allende, Salvador, 17, 160, 258

  Allingham, Margery, 167

  All the Year Round, 291–92

  al-Qaeda, 66, 105, 111, 120, 248

  Altenberg, Peter, 150

  Alter, Victor, 22

  Alteration, The (Amis), 307

  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 106, 110, 112, 226

  American Enterprise Institute, 194

  American Nazi Party, 110

  American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens), 297

  American Revolution, 55

  Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 116, 118, 120

  Amis, Kingsley

  The Alteration, 307

  The James Bond Dossier, 98

  Amristar massacre (1919), 93, 206

  Anderson, John, 200

  Anderson, Jon Lee, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, 1–18

  Anderson, Perry, 279

  English Questions, 27

  Andress, Ursula, 99

  Angola, Cuban expedition to, 6

  Animal Farm (Orwell), 23, 24, 28

  Antaeus (Greek legend), 267–68

  Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 124–25

  Antigone (Sophocles), 237

  Anti-Suffrage League, 154

  Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (1996), 112, 226

  Aplin, Hugh, transl., A Hero of Our Time (Lermontov), 57, 62

  Arafat, Yasser, 136, 254

  Arbenz, Jacobo, 8, 9–10, 11, 14

  Area of Darkness, An (Naipaul), 221

  Armas, Castillo, 9

  Armenia, 261–64

  Armey, Dick, 271

  Armitage, Richard, 256

  Aron, Raymond, 148

  Ashcroft, John, 108, 111

  Ashe, Arthur, 73

  Assad, Bashar, 266

  Assad, Hafez al-, 128

  Astor, Nancy, 93

  As You Like It (Shakespeare), 275–76

  Atatürk, Kemal, 34–35, 36–37

  Atlantic, The

  “A. N. Wilson: Downhill All the Way” (January/February 2006), 91–96

  “Arthur Schlesinger: The Courier” (December 2007), 197–202

  “Barack Obama: Cool Cat” (January/February 2009), 229–34

  “Blood for No Oil!” (May 2006), 115–21

  “Clive James: The Omnivore” (April 2007), 147–51

  “Edmund Wilson: Literary Companion” (September 2007), 163–68

  “Gertrude Bell: The Woman Who Made Iraq” (June 2007), 153–58

  “G. K. Chesterton: The Reactionary” (March 2012), 299–310

  “Ian Fleming: Bottoms Up” (April 2006), 97–103

  “Imperial Follies” (December 2006), 141–46

  “Mikhail Lermontov: A Doomed Young Man” (June 2005), 57–62

  “On Becoming American” (May 2005), 53–55

  “Orhan Pamuk: Mind the Gap” (October 2004), 29–37

  “Paul Scott: Victoria’s Secret” (January/February 2008), 203–9

  “Rosa Luxemburg: Red Rosa” (June 2001), 273–79

  “Salman Rushdie: Hobbes in the Himalayas” (September 2005), 63–69

  “V. S. Naipaul: Cruel and Unusual” (November 2008), 217–24

  Audacity of Hope, The (Obama), 230–31

  Auden, W. H., 149

  Aung San Suu Kyi, 150

  Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), 108

  Axelrod, David, 230

  Ayers, William, 232

  Baden-Powell, Robert, 16

  Bailey, Peter, 221

  Baker, James A. III, 128–29, 216

  Baldwin, James, 229

  Balfour Declaration, 156

  Balkenende, Jan Peter, 194

  Bamford, James

  Body of Secrets, 111

  The Puzzle Palace, 111

  Banderas, Antonio, 3

  Barnier, Michel, 259

  Barr, Bob, 112

  Batista, Fulgencio, 3, 8, 10, 11

  Bayle, Pierre, 193

  BBC, 1, 262

  Beauvoir, Simone de, 174

  Beinart, Peter, The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again, 115–21

  Belge, Murat, 263

  Bell, Aimee, 183

  Bell, Gertrude, 153–58

  “A Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia,” 157

  Bend in the River, A (Naipaul), 219

  Benedict XVI, Pope, 139–40

  Bennett, Alan, The History Boys, 141

  Bergen, Peter, 111

  Beria, Lavrenty, 143

  Berlin, Isaiah, 27, 148, 199

  Berman, Paul, 118

  Bernal, J. D., 28

  Betancourt, Ingrid, 150

  Bethune, Norman, 160

  Bevan, Aneurin, 146

  Beyond Belief (Naipaul), 222

  Bhagavad Gita, 68

  Bhowani Junction (Masters), 205

  Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 135

  bin Laden, Osama, 132

  Bitter Fruit (Schlesinger and Kinzer), 8

  Black and Tans, 93

  Black Caucus, 230

  Black Jacobins, The (James), 223

  Black Panthers, 111

  Blackwell, Kenneth, 50

  Blair, Tony, 96, 106, 112

  Blake, William, 317n

  Blue Nights (Didion), 281–82

  Blumenthal, Richard, 271

  Blunt, Wilfred, 158

  Bobbitt, Philip, 72

  Body of Secrets (Bamford), 111

  Boehner, John, 271

  Bolívar, Simón, 7

  Bolivia, Guevara’s death in, 7, 15–17

  Borges, Jorges Luis, 166

  Bosnia, 119, 193, 215–16, 255

  Boston Massacre, 206

  Boucher, Richard, 251

  Boxer, Barbara, 120

  Bradlee, Ben, 138

  Bradley, Doug, 74

  Brasillach, Robert, 150

  Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), 168, 308

  Britain’s Secret Propaganda War (Lashmar and Oliver), 19–20

  British Empire, end of, 141–46, 203–4

  British Empire Exhibition (1924), 92

  British Museum, 239

  Broaddrick, Juanita, 213

  Brookhiser, Richard, 137

  Bruce, Evangeline, 199

  Bryan, William Jennings, 253

  Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 200

  Buchan, John, 155

  Buchanan, James, 76

  Buchanan, Patrick J., 53, 55, 105, 116

  Buchwald, Art, 87

  Buckley, Christopher, 233

  Buckley, William F., Jr., 73, 137

  Burdett-Coutts, Angela, 296

  Burke, Edmund, 42

  Burke and Hare, 160

  Burmese Days (Orwell), 205, 314

  Burns, John, 110–11

  Bush administration (W.), 107–9, 111, 121, 127–29, 213
, 254

  Bush at War (Woodward), 255

  Bush, George H. W., 17, 72, 119–20, 128, 216, 226

  Bush, George W.

  bombing proposal by, 106, 112

  and elections, 48, 50, 225

  medal awarded by, 109

  and Middle East wars, 106, 120, 227

  and September 11 attacks, 109, 226

  speeches of, 30, 226

  and warrantless surveillance, 107, 108, 109, 111

  Bush, Laura, 226

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 58, 59, 60, 62

  “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” 239

  “The Curse of Minerva,” 239

  Byzantine Empire, 238

  Cambanis, Thanassis, A Privilege to Die, 267

  Campbell, Joseph, and Henry Morton Robinson, A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake, 165

  Camus, Albert, 151

  The Rebel, 149

  Capra, Frank, 46

  Carlyle, Thomas, 296, 318

  Carr, Allen, 178, 186, 188

  Carr, E. H., 21

  Carrington, Lord, 253

  Carter, Jimmy, 118, 199–200, 202

  Carter, John P., 77

  Casanova complex, 62

  Case Against Barack Obama, The (Freddoso), 229–34

  “cash nexus,” 1

  Casino Royale (Fleming), 99, 102

  Castro, Fidel, 4, 100, 149

  and Guevara, 10, 11

  lynch trials ordered by, 11

  and revolution, 1, 9, 10, 12

  Castro, Raúl, 11

  Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, 161

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 21, 274

  Chalabi, Ahmad, 256

  Chamberlain, Joseph, 95

  Chamberlain, Neville, 95

  Chandler, Raymond, 167

  Chanel, Coco, 148

  Channon, Henry “Chips,” 200

  Chappaquiddick, 137, 244

  Charterhouse of Parma, The (Stendhal), 20

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 305

  Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Anderson), 1–18

  Chekhov, Anton, 36

  Cheney, Dick, 48, 50, 128, 253

  Chesterton, G. K., 299–310, 318n

  on Distributism, 302–3, 308, 309

  Father Brown stories, 299, 307–8

  “Lepanto,” 299–300, 301

  The Man Who Was Thursday, 307

  and Marconi case, 301

  The Napoleon of Notting Hill, 307

  and Nazism, 308–10

  on paradoxes, 301, 303–4, 306–7, 309

  Paradox of Conservatism, 301

  poems by, 299

  “The Secret People,” 300–301, 303

  “Why I Am a Catholic,” 306

  “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” (Byron), 239

  Childers, Erskine, The Riddle of the Sands, 155

  Chinese fighter aircraft collision (2001), 254

  Chirac, Jacques, 96

  Christie, Agatha, Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, 167

  Christmas, 87–89, 202, 283–89

  Christmas Carol, A (Dickens), 287, 293

  “Christmas Carol, A” (Lehrer), 283–84, 285, 286

  Chung, Connie, 138

  Church, Frank, 111

  Churchill, Winston, 92, 93, 142, 144, 153

  CIA, 3, 113

  and Castro, 100

  and Congress for Cultural Freedom, 201

  and Guatemala, 8, 11

  and Guevara, 4, 7, 16–17

  and Hungary, 144

  and Middle East, 109, 111

  Cienfuegos, Camilo, 10

  Cities of Salt quintet (Munif), 29

  civil rights, 198–99

  Clinton administration, 72, 202, 216

  Clinton, Bill, 41, 54, 125, 227

  Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, 112, 226

  and election campaign, 216

  and Hillary, 211, 212

  and Schlesinger, 202

  and sex, 202, 212–13

  and TV, 137

  Clinton, Chelsea, 216

  Clinton, Hillary, 121, 211–14, 215–16, 230–31

  Clymer, Adam, 245

  Codebreakers, The (Kahn), 111

  Cold War, 117, 119, 121

  Colefax, Sybil, 95

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, “Khubla Khan,” 36

  colonialism, 145

  Coming Up for Air (Orwell), 312

  Communism, fall of, 141

  Communist Party

  in Britain, 21, 22–23, 24, 27

  in Cuba, 10, 11, 13

  in Spain, 21, 22

  Condit, Gary, 138

  Condition of the Working Class in England, The (Engels), 313

  Congress for Cultural Freedom, 201

  Connally, C. Ellen, 48

  Connery, Sean, 99

  Connor, “Bull,” 199

  Conquest, Robert, 273–74

  Constitution, U.S., 105, 106, 108

  Coppola, Peter, 189

  Cortázar, Julio, 6

  Coughlin, Father, 54

  Coulter, Ann, 232

  Council on American-Islamic Relations, 110

  Coward, Noël, 99, 102

  Craig, Daniel, 99

  Crick, Bernard, 20

  Croly, Herbert, The Promise of American Life, 168

  Cromwell, Oliver, 89, 284, 319

  Cronkite, Walter, 244

  Crosby, Bing, 285

  Crossman, Richard, 26

  Crump, Ed “Boss,” 43

  Cuba

  Castro revolution in, 1, 9, 10, 12

  Communist Party in, 10, 11, 13

  Guevara in, 11–13

  legal currencies in, 1–4

  Ministry of Tourism, 2

  Cuban missile crisis, 12

  Cuban National Bank, 1

  Cultural Amnesia: Necesssary Memories From History and the Arts (James), 147–51

  Cunninghame Graham, R. B., 158

  “Curse of Minerva, The” (Byron), 239

  Curzon, Lord, 98

  Cyprus, 263

  Czechoslovakia, Soviet occupation of, 23–24

  Daily Telegraph, 19, 20

  Daily Worker, 22

  Dangerfield, George, The Strange Death of Liberal England, 93

  Dante Alighieri, 165

  Darfur, 251–52, 258

  Dark Green, Bright Red (Vidal), 8

  Darwin, Charles, 296

  Dassin, Jules, 239

  David Copperfield (Dickens), 293, 295

  Da Vinci Code, The (Brown), 166

  Davis, Eliza, 296

  Day of the Scorpion, The (Scott), 204

  Dean, James, 6

  death penalty, 42

  Debray, Régis, 7

  Decembrist revolution (1825), 58, 62

  de Gaulle, Charles, 142

  Democratic Convention (1968), 202

  Dershowitz, Alan, 125

  Descartes, René, 193

  detoxification, 173–74

  Deutscher, Isaac, 26, 27, 94, 279

  Development of Capitalism in Russia, The (Lenin), 274

  DeVoto, Bernard, 167

  Dewey, Thomas, 116

  Diamond, Larry, 110

  Diamonds Are Forever (Fleming), 97, 98

  Dickens, Charles, 291–97, 299, 305

  American Notes for General Circulation, 297

  A Christmas Carol, 287, 293

  David Copperfield, 293, 295

  Martin Chuzzlewit, 297

  The Old Curiosity Shop, 294, 295

  Oliver Twist, 294–95, 296

  Our Mutual Friend, 296–97

  The Pickwick Papers, 294–95

  Dickensian, 291

  Didion, Joan, 201

  Blue Nights, 281–82

  The Year of Magical Thinking, 281

  Diebold voting machines, 50–52

  Diefenbach, Hans, 275

  Dink, Hrant, 263

  “disappeared persons,” 4

  Distributism, 302–3, 308, 309

  Disuniting of America, The (Schlesinger), 202

  Division of th
e Spoils, A (Scott), 205

  Doctorow, E. L., 45

  Donaldson, Sam, 137

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 278, 291–92, 295

  Doughty-Wylie, Dick, 153

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 166, 307

  “Dream of H. C. Earwicker, The” (Wilson), 164

  Dreams from My Father (Obama), 231–32

  Driberg, Tom, 26

  Drieu de Rochelle, Pierre, 21

  Dr. No (Fleming), 99

  Dubinsky, David, 116

  Dulles, Allen, 9

  Dulles, John Foster, 9, 145, 146

  Dumont, René, 13

  Dunne, John Gregory, 201, 281

  Dyer, Reginald, 93, 206

  Dylan, Bob, 281

  Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 278

  Earnhardt, Dale, 74

  East India Company, 203

  Eastman, Max, The Literary Mind, 164

  Eco, Umberto, 103, 147

  Eden, Sir Anthony, 100, 142, 144–45, 146

  Edward VIII, king of England, 92

  Edwards, John, 48, 230–31

  Egypt, 142, 143–45, 146

  Einstein, Albert, 30, 95

  Eisenhower administration, 144, 145, 198

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 72, 100, 144–45, 146, 197

  Elgin, Lord, 238–39, 240

  Eliot, T. S., 178, 299

  “After Strange Gods,” 80

  Elizabeth II, queen of England, 92

  Elton, Ben, 94

  Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln), 71, 109

  Emanuel, Rahm, 232

  Emmert, Kirk, 45

  empire, 19; see also Great Britain

  Encounter magazine, 201

  Ends of British Imperialism: The Scramble for Empire, Suez, and Decolonialization (Louis), 141–46

  Engels, Friedrich, The Condition of the Working Class in England, 313

  English Patient, The (film), 154

  English Questions (Anderson), 27

  Enigma of Arrival, The (Naipaul), 217

  Enlightenment, 120, 193

  Erdogan, Recep Tayyip, 262–64

  Erlich, Henryk, 22

  Establishment Clause, 288–89

  Eugene Onegin (Pushkin), 61

  Euripides, 237, 281

  European Union, 262

  Everyman Chesterton, The (Ker), 299–310

  Evita (Lloyd Webber), 3

  exercise, 174, 190–91

  Exner, Judith Campbell, 199

  Eyre, Edward John, 296

  Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt (Gati), 141–46

  Faisal, King (Saudi Arabia), 155, 157

  Falklands War, 253

  Fallaci, Oriana, 131–40

  Inshallah, 138

  Interview with History, 134

  The Rage and the Pride, 139

  Falwell, Jerry, 72

  Fan-Mail (James), 151

  Farabundo Martí Liberation Front, 2, 3

  Farrakhan, Louis, Final Call, 84

  fascism, 19

  FBI, 109–10

  Fekkai, Frédéric, 189

  feminism, 150–51, 195

  Fillmore, Millard, 76

  Final Call (Farrakhan), 84

  financial system, collapse of, 227

  Financial Times, 187

  Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 164–65

  Firbank, Ronald, 167

 

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