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Adler, Stella, 5
Agrarians, 24
Aldrich, Maddie. See Rand, Maddie Aldrich
Aldrich, Mrs. (Maddie’s mother), 14
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 53, 57, 96–97
American Mercury, The, 29
Amlie, Tom, 27
Anderson, Maxwell, 1
Angoff, Charles, 29
“Anti-Climax” (Johnsrud), 4–5
Anti-Stalinism, 24, 67, 90, 122
Aquavella, Nick, 11
Arendt, Hannah, 96
Ashforth, Albert B., 11–12, 44
“Ash Wednesday” (Eliot), 77
Astoria (Irving), 7
Auden, W. H., 74
Awake and Sing (Odets), 4
Axel’s Castle (Wilson), 90
Balabanov, Angelica, 65
Barber, Samuel, 80
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 56
Beekman Place apartments
Johnsruds’, 8, 11—12, 20, 25, 44, 48
McCarthy and Rahv’s, 67, 70, 72
Belloc, Hilaire, 28
Bellow, Saul, 14
Biberman, Abner, 3
Bible, 77–78
Bingham, Alfred, 16–17
Bishop, Elizabeth, 13, 48, 118–19
See also “Man in the Brooks
Brothers Shirt, The”
Black, Hugo, 84
Blair, Mary, 111
Blough, Frani, 5, 7, 13, 20, 38, 48, 53, 72, 116
Blue Juniata (Cowley), 7
Blum, Léon, 2
Bogan, Louise, 123
Book and Magazine Guild, 65
Bookman, 24
Boston, Lyon and Barbara Hudnut, 20
Breed, Alan and Rosilla, 20
Bregman, Abbie and Kit, 67, 70, 72
Broadwater, Bowden, 100, 110, 120
Broene, Miss (McCarthy’s coworker at Covici-Friede), 64, 65, 99
Broom, 16
Browder, Earl, 57
Brown, Lois, 44
Bukharin, N. I., 85
Canby, Henry Seidel, 29
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 26
Chamberlain, John, 29
Chambers, Whittaker, 7
Chaplin, Charlie, 87
Chapman, Chanler, 14
Charmed Life, A (McCarthy), 98–99, 101
Civic Repertory Theatre, 3, 116
Clara (Johnsruds’ maid), 5, 44, 117
Clark, Ambrose, 51
Clark, Eunice, 15, 16–17, 19, 20, 63, 74, 82, 114, 119
Claudius the God (Graves), 28
Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 4, 65
McCarthy as member of, 41–42, 57–59
Communism, 1–3, 6, 17, 18, 21, 26, 27, 28, 40
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 26, 28
Communist Party, 2–3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, 22–23, 24, 39–40, 65, 66, 77, 82, 92, 116, 121, 122
Company She Keeps, The (McCarthy), 36, 60. See also specific stories in
Con Spirito, 118
Covici, Pat, 63–65
Covici-Friede, 63–66, 75–76, 88, 99, 106
Craig, Sam, 39–40
Crawford, Cheryl, 117
“Cruel and Barbarous Treatment” (McCarthy), 35–36
“Culture and the Crisis” (Wilson), 121
Da Silva, Howard, 3
Dewey, John, 4
Dimitrov, Georgi M., 2
Dodd, Martha, 73
Dodge, Mrs. Hartley, 51
Dos Passos, John and Katy, 111
Dupee, Fred (F. W.), 18, 71, 81, 86, 119, 122
As Partisan Review editor, 24, 67, 76, 83, 89, 91–93, 95
East End Avenue apartment, 74–75, 86–87
Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The (Marx), 72
Eitingon, Motty, 4–5, 6, 97, 116
Eliot, T. S., 77
Enjoyment of Poetry (Eastman), 87
Exile’s Return (Cowley), 7, 117
Farrell, James T., 22–24, 26, 48, 49, 57, 59, 64, 65
Faulkner, William, 25
February Hill (Lincoln), 28
Ferguson, Otis (“Oat”), 8, 9–10
“Flaubert’s Politics” (Wilson), 125
Freud, Sigmund, 26
From the Tsar to Lenin, 87
Fugitives, 24
Gallup, George, 21
Gay Street apartment, 41, 47–49, 55, 59, 62, 67
McCarthy’s sexual affairs at, 61–63
“Genial Host, The” (McCarthy), 60
George, Mrs. Robert Latham, 4
Gilfillan, Lauren, 8–10
Gourmont, Rémy de, 36
GPU (Stalin’s agents), 113–14, 121, 126
Graves, Robert, 28
Greenwich Village, 8, 41, 44, 65, 92
Group, The (McCarthy), 16–17, 66, 116, 117, 118, 119
Groves of Academe, The (McCarthy), 99
Guterman, Norbert, 77
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 26
Harvard University, 34–35
Harvey, Gabriel, 56
Hattie (Wilson’s maid), 97, 98, 100
Hellman, Geoffrey, 19
Hellman, Lillian, 7, 61, 117–18, 121
Hemingway, Ernest, 16, 73, 121
Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), 14
Henle, Jim and Marjorie, 49
Heyday of American Communism, The (Klehr), 17
Hidden Northwest, The (Cantwell), 7
Hiss, Alger, 40
Hollering, Franz, 97
Hooker, Richard, 56
Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union, 17
How I Grew (McCarthy), 117
Howland, Lois Sandison, 12, 13, 44, 53, 55, 74
Huberman, Leo, 61
Hugo, Jean, 13
Humanists (American), 23–24
I, Claudius (Graves), 28
“I Got the Blues” (Odets), 4
In Dubious Battle (Steinbeck), 28
Irving, Washington, 7
I Thought of Daisy (Wilson), 93
I Went to Pit College (Gilfillan), 8–10
Jews, 2, 5, 14, 59–61, 68, 79–80, 123
Johnsrud, Harold Cooper (“John”), 97, 118
McCarthy’s abandonment of, 35–39, 42, 48, 51–52, 62, 72, 110, 116
as McCarthy’s first husband, 1, 3–6, 8, 11–17, 19–27, 32–33, 74, 115
Jonson, Ben, 55–56
Kaltenborn, H. V., 70–71
Kaltenborn Edits the News, 70–71
Katz, Gene, 59
Kimball, Win, 111
Kirchwey, Freda, 29–30, 32, 58
Kitchel, Ann (“Miss Kitchel”), 52–55, 71, 87, 103, 120, 124
Klehr, Harvey, 17
Knox, Sam, 16
Knox, Sylvia, 16
Kormendi, Lazslo, 49
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 10, 28, 29
Land of Plenty, The (Cantwell), 7
Larsen, Nella, 27
Lauchheimer, Alan. See Barth, Alan
Laugh and Lie Down (Cantwell), 7
Laughlin, James (“Jay”), 50
League of American Writers, 72–73, 85, 122
LeBoutiller, Peggy, 16
Lenin, Vladimir, 65
Letters on Literature and Politics (Wilson), 10
Lewis, John L., 34
Liberator, 87
Lincoln, Victoria, 28
Locke, John, 56
Lockwood, Helen, 7, 74, 117, 122
Loeb, Harold, 16
Lost Generation, 117
Lydgate, Bill and Kay Dana, 20–21
Lyons, Leonard, 5
McCarthy, Joseph, 87
McCarthy, Kevin (brother), 112–14
McCarthy, Louis (uncle), 112
McCarthy, Preston (brother), 112–14
Macdonald, Dwight, 16, 18–19, 71–72, 73, 119, 122
as Partisan Review editor, 24, 66–67, 76, 83, 89, 119
Macdonald, Nancy, 16, 19, 71, 83
McGahan, Martha, 20, 48, 72, 114, 119
McLean, Kay, 16
MacLeish, Archibald, 34
Mangold, Bill, 15, 61–62, 63, 65–66
“Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt, The” (McCarthy), 50, 120. See also Black, George
Mann, Erika, 74
Man’s Fate (Malraux), 26
Marching, Marching (Weatherwax), 28
Marprelate Controversy, 55–56
Marshall, Margaret (“Peggy”), 48
as McCarthy’s collaborator, 29–33, 91, 96
and Wilson, 91–97, 104, 106–7, 126
Martin, Edmond, 47–49
Marx, Karl, 26, 34, 35, 69, 81
Marxism, 8, 17, 22, 69, 81, 91
Masses, The, 87
Mead, Margaret, 103
Memoirs of Hecate County (Wilson), 100, 125
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (McCarthy), 115
Menotti, Gian-Carlo, 80
Meyer, Bis, 14
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 103, 123
Miscellany News, 15
Misch, Bob, 59–61
Mitchell, Mrs. Langdon, 14
Mizener, Arthur, 35
Modernism, 25
More, Paul Elmer, 23
Morris, George L. K., 24, 66, 67, 76, 92
Moscow Trials, 26–27, 35, 57–59, 67, 73, 85–86, 90
Murphy, Esther, 17
Murphy, Gerald, 17
Mussolini, Benito, 65
“My Confession” (McCarthy), 39, 40, 57
Nation, The, 26, 29, 73, 91, 120
McCarthy’s work for, 3, 10, 23, 27–33, 51, 63, 64, 72
New Masses, 18, 30, 52, 55, 56, 57, 67
New Republic, The, 3, 6–10, 117
New York Herald Tribune, 10–11, 29
New York Times, The, 11, 29, 30, 31
New York World, 17
Obermeier, Mike, 17
O’Casey, Sean, 6
Olson, Floyd, 27
On the Contrary (McCarthy), 39
“Our Critics” (McCarthy and Marshall), 29–33, 91
Paris, Rosemary, 35
contributors to, 121, 122–23, 124–25
editors of, 23–24, 66–67, 71, 74, 76, 80–82, 83, 118, 119
McCarthy as theatre critic for, 75, 103
McCarthy’s introduction to, 23–24, 83
Partisan View, A (Phillips), 73, 82
Personal History (Sheean), 28
Peterson, Dorothy, 27
Phillips, William, 72–73, 81, 82, 84–85, 122
As Partisan Review editor, 23–24, 66–67, 74–76, 91–92, 119
Pins and Needles, 62
Popular Front, 2
Porter, John, 55
McCarthy’s abandonment of, 43–45, 48, 51–52
McCarthy’s relationship with, 1–3, 15, 35–45, 116
PR. See Partisan Review
Preston, Harold, 44, 51, 69, 87–88, 101–2, 114, 126
Prokosch, Frederick, 72
Proust, Marcel, 96
Puritanism, in New Masses, 55–56
Rahv, Naomi, 66
background and youth of, 65, 78–80, 81–82
McCarthy’s abandonment of, 97–99, 102–10, 114
McCarthy’s affair with, 62, 63, 65–88, 91, 94, 95–97, 118
as Partisan Review editor, 23–24, 66–67, 71, 74–76, 91–92, 93, 118, 119
Rand, Christopher, 14–15, 20, 48
Rand, Maddie Aldrich, 14–15, 20, 48, 119
Ransom, John Crowe, 24
Retour de l’U.R.S.S. (Gide), 75
Revolution Betrayed, The (Trotsky), 92
Rodman, Eunice. See Clark, Eunice
Rodman, Nancy. See Macdonald, Nancy
Rodman, Selden, 16–17, 19–20, 22, 27, 63
“Rogue’s Gallery” (McCarthy), 11
Rome, Harold (“Hecky”), 62
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 34, 66, 84
Rosenberg, Harold, 84, 104, 123
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 23
Rosenfeld, Paul, 90
Rousuck, Emmanuel J. (“Mannie”), 11, 18, 51, 52, 106, 118
Rubin, Jay, 17
Rumsey, David and Julia, 20
Sandison, Helen (“Miss Sandison”), 11, 52–57, 71, 90, 114, 118, 120, 122, 124
Sandison, Lois. See Howland, Lois Sandison
Saturday Review of Literature, The, 29
Savoy Ballroom (Harlem), 15, 27
Schlesinger, Arthur, 71
Schrifte, Evelyn, 49
Schwartz, Delmore, 76, 104, 122
Scottsboro Boys, 18
Second Congress of the League of American Writers, 72, 85, 122
Seven Who Fled (Prokosch), 72
Sheean, Vincent, 28
Sheridan, Margaret, 115
Sherman, Stuart, 23
Socialism, 2, 6, 26, 33, 65, 67, 69, 72
So Red the Rose (Young), 28
Spanish Civil War, 35, 61, 72–73, 85, 121
Spenser, Edmund, 56
Stalin, Joseph, 86, 116. See also GPU; Moscow Trials
Stalinism, 10, 15, 23, 42, 57–58, 60–61, 64, 71, 72–73, 85–86, 114, 123
Stein, Gertrude, 25–26
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 73, 121–22
Stolberg, Ben, 30–31, 33–35, 94
Strachey, John, 17–18, 82, 122
Strauss, Harold, 64
Summer Will Show (Warner), 28
Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), 16
Swan, Nathalie, 12, 20, 44, 72, 74, 83–84, 118
Tate, Allen, 24
Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald), 17
Time, 7
Travels in Two Democracies (Wilson), 90
Trees (Wilson’s home), 96–97, 98, 99, 100, 106, 109, 113, 125
Trilling, Diana, 73–74
Triple Thinkers, The (Wilson), 124
Trotsky, Leon, 41, 57–58, 69, 72, 74, 84, 90, 92
Trotskyism, 4, 26, 61, 67, 71, 73–74, 84, 87, 103, 114. See also Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky
Tukhachevsky, M. N., 85–86
Ulysses (Joyce), 25
“University” (Johnsrud), 25
Valéry, Paul, 84
Van Doren, Irita, 10–11
Variety, 6
McCarthy’s attendance at, 1, 8, 28, 35, 52, 71, 87, 90, 103, 117, 118, 120, 124
McCarthy’s friends and enemies from, 5, 74, 116, 118, 119, 122
Villard, Oswald Garrison, 30, 120
Waiting for Lefty (Odets), 4, 5
Waldorf strike, 16–17
Walker, Charles, 4
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 28
Waste Land, The (Eliot), 77
Weatherwax, Clara, 28
Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 14
Webster Hall dances, 3, 15, 61
Welty, Eudora, 64
Weston (Porter’s collaborator), 37–38, 40–41
Williams, Tony, 15–16
Willkie, Wendell, 50
Wilson, Edmund (“Bunny”)
influence of, on McCarthy’s writing, 103–4
McCarthy leaves, 54–55
McCarthy’s marriage to, 109–14, 116, 125
McCarthy’s relationship with, 88–114, 124, 125, 126
As New Republic editor, 6, 10, 117
relations of, with women, 100, 103, 111–12, 123
Wilson, Mrs. (Edmund’s mother), 105–6, 109–12
Wilson, Rosalind, 111
Winchell, Walter, 5
Wine and Food Society, 59–60
Winterset (Anderson), 1, 22, 35
Wolfson, Martin, 3
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 36
World Series, 49–50
Writers’ Congress, 72, 85, 122
Young, Art, 57
Young, Stark, 28
Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, The (Farrell), 22
Zugsmith, Leane, 61