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• Adams, Abigail, xvi, 30, 39–41, 77, 116–18, 136
  • personal and public life of, 33, 39, 118, 122–25, 127, 130, 132
• Adams, John:
  • absence of monument for, 27, 29, 31, 115
  • ambassadorship of, 39–40
  • death of, 36, 50
  • and Declaration of Independence, 32–36, 56–58, 108–9
  • education of, 31–32
  • on education of women, 124–25
  • France and, 21, 36–38, 41, 85, 123
  • Franklin and, 38, 107, 114–15
  • Hamilton and, 71, 85–86
  • HBO miniseries on, 39–40
  • Jefferson and, 27, 29–30, 33, 35–36, 38, 50, 56, 58, 61–62, 66
  • law career of, 31–32, 57
  • McCullough on, 26–44, 115
  • Massachusetts constitution and, 40, 43–44
  • personality and demeanor of, 27–30, 32–33, 37, 40, 42, 44, 85, 91
  • personal life of, 31, 33, 39, 42, 118, 122–25, 127, 130
  • physical appearance of, 26, 30, 35, 64
  • presidency and, 14–15, 20–22, 27, 29, 31–32, 41–42, 62, 85–86, 130
  • press and, 36, 42, 50
  • reading of, 31, 37, 43
  • retirement of, 58, 61–62
  • Revolutionary War and, 27, 32, 36, 38, 85, 110, 124
  • slavery and, 33, 56
  • Truman and, 28, 30, 35, 44
  • vice presidency and, 14, 27, 40–41
  • Washington and, 14–15, 20–22, 27, 29, 33, 35, 40–41, 85–86
  • writing of, 29, 122–25, 127
• Adams, John Quincy, 36–37, 60, 65, 71, 124
• Adams, Samuel, 91, 107, 114
• African Americans, xv, 24, 54, 120, 126, 154, 283, 308. See also slaves, slavery
  • civil rights and, xvii, 241, 245–46, 250–51, 254–59, 264, 267–68, 271
  • Kennedy and, 241, 245–47, 263
  • King and, 250–51, 254–55, 257–58, 261–63, 265
  • voting rights and, 53, 156, 255
• Alcock, John, 169
• Alexander Hamilton (Chernow), 67–68, 70, 89
• Ali, Muhammad, 307–8, 310
• Allen, Ethan, 140
• All the President’s Men (film), 301, 305
• All the President’s Men (Woodward and Bernstein), 297–99
• America First, 161, 166, 179–80, 190
• Antietam, Battle of, 152–53, 204
• Articles of Confederation, 12–13, 18, 77–79, 111
• At Canaan’s Edge (Branch), 249–50, 253, 255
• atomic weapons, 210–11, 310
  • Cuban Missile Crisis and, 231, 243–45
• Auschwitz, 186, 198, 200–204

• Baker, Bobby, 282, 288
• Baker, James, 310, 332, 336–37
• Barkley, Alben, 283
• Bartlett, Charles, 237
• Bates, Edward, 144–45, 148–49
• Bay of Pigs invasion, 232, 241–42
• Beckley, John, 119
• Benjamin Franklin (Isaacson), 91–92, 94–96, 112, 114
• Berg, A. Scott, xv, 160–84
• Berlin, 165, 194, 198, 210, 219–20
• Berlin Wall, 233
• Bernstein, Carl, 297–303, 305–6, 313
• Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 164
• Billington, James, xiv–xv
• bin Laden, Osama, 310–11
• Blackmun, Harry, 308–9
• Boggs, Hale and Lindy, 117, 119
• Bonus Army marchers, 214, 271
• Booth, John Wilkes, 118, 156–57
• Bradlee, Ben, 300, 302
• Bradley, Omar, 204, 207, 220
• Branch, Taylor, xv
  • on civil rights movement, 249–72
  • on King, 249–55, 257–72
• Brands, H. W., 317–41
• Brattain, Walter, 97
• Brethren, The (Woodward and Armstrong), 297, 307–9
• Brooks, Preston, 147
• Brown, Arthur, 169
• Brown, Jerry, 240
• Brownell, Herbert, 221–25
• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 211, 250–51, 256, 259, 293, 357
• Buchanan, James, 118, 128, 133–34
• Bully Pulpit, The (Goodwin), 137–38
• Burger, Warren, 223, 308
• Burke, Edmund, 73
• Burr, Aaron, 62–63, 68–69, 71, 86–88
• Bush, George H. W., 46, 298, 309, 315, 336, 343, 349
• Bush, George W., 298
  • Iraq war and, 311–12, 316
  • presidency and, xiv, 29, 311–12, 316, 343, 350–52
• Butler, Nicholas Murray, 220–21
• Butterfield, Alex, 304
• Byrd, Harry, 285

• Cameron, Simon, 148–49
• Camp David Accords, 314
• Capital Dames (Roberts), 116–17
• Carmichael, Stokely, 262–63
• Caro, Robert A., xv
  • on Johnson, 273–96
  • on Moses, 273–74, 277–78
• Carter, Jimmy:
  • presidency and, xii, 230, 298, 314–15, 318, 334–36
  • Reagan and, 318, 334–36
  • Rubenstein’s background and, 230, 298, 314, 318
  • Woodward on, 314–15
• Casey, William, 309
• Castro, Fidel, 10–11, 234, 241–42
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 7, 226, 242, 309, 311
• Chase, Salmon P., 144–45, 148–49, 158
• Chernow, Ron, 67–90
• Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 54
• China, 95, 211, 284
• Churchill, Winston, 46, 49, 235
  • Eisenhower and, 207, 219
  • Roosevelt and, 141, 195–97
  • World War II and, 186, 190–92, 195–97, 201, 204, 216
• civil rights, 49, 207
  • African Americans and, xvii, 241, 245–46, 250–51, 254–59, 264, 267–68, 271
  • Birmingham campaign and, 251, 254–55, 260, 264, 266
  • Branch on, 249–72
  • Eisenhower and, 208, 211, 256–57
  • Freedom Rides and, 261–62, 270
  • Johnson and, xvii, 142–43, 246, 267, 269, 275, 282, 294, 296
  • Kennedy and, 241, 245–47, 252, 263–64, 266–67, 289, 294
  • King and, xvii, 245, 247, 250–52, 254–55, 257–61, 264–72
  • and March on Washington, 246–47, 251–52, 264–66
  • Montgomery bus boycott and, 254, 257–59
  • and Selma to Montgomery marches, 251, 267–71
  • sit–ins and, 259–60, 270
  • Supreme Court and, 211, 250–51, 256, 258–59, 268, 293, 357
• Civil War, 16, 64, 71, 89, 133, 179, 234
  • casualties in, 53, 123, 155, 199
  • civil rights and, 49, 255, 257
  • Founding Mothers and, 117, 120
  • Lincoln and, xvii, 140, 144, 151–56, 204
• Claiborne, William, 119–20
• Clay, Henry, 133, 159
• Clay, Lucius, 208, 219, 221–26
• Clements, Earle, 285
• Clinton, Bill, 315–16
• Clinton, George, 79
• Clinton, Hillary, 141, 316
• Cold War, 197, 210, 241, 292, 329
• Commanders, The (Woodward), 298, 309–10
• Confederation Congress, 53, 61, 75, 77
• Congress, U.S., 14, 16, 18, 35, 50, 55, 61, 64, 82, 86, 88, 107, 132–33, 138, 204, 212, 222, 224, 240, 248, 300, 332
  • Adams and, 27, 40
  • civil rights and, xvii, 251, 268–69, 275, 294
  • C. Roberts and, 117, 119–21
  • Jefferson and, 62–63
  • J.G. Roberts and, 343–45, 350, 353–54
  • Johnson and, 267, 274–76, 278–86, 288–89, 294
  • Kennedy and, 237–38, 246, 275, 287
  • Lindbergh’s father and, 166–67
  • Nixon and, 237, 304, 307, 313
  • Reagan and, 315, 319, 337
  • seniority system of, 283–84
  • slavery and, 52, 146–47
  • Supreme Court and, 344, 354
• Congressional Dialogues, ix, xiii–xvi, 45, 230, 250, 343–44
• Connally, John, 288–91
• Conner, Fox, 212–13
• Constitution, U.S., xi, xiii, 117, 120, 179, 292
  • civil rights and, xvii, 250, 258
  • Franklin and, 79, 92, 99, 111–13
  • Hamilton and, 79–80, 83, 90
  • Jefferson and, 18, 83
  • King and, 258, 272
  • ratification of, 13, 40, 79–80
  • signing of, 40, 92, 112
  • slavery and, 52, 138, 146–47, 152
  • Supreme Court and, 211, 293, 354, 357
  • Washington and, xvi, 7, 12–14, 40
• Constitution, U.S., Amendments to:
  • Twelfth Amendment to, 63
  • Thirteenth Amendment to, xiii, xvii, 138, 147, 255
  • Fourteenth Amendment to, xvii, 255–56
  • Fifteenth Amendment to, xvii, 255, 268
• Constitutional Convention, 52, 77–79, 129
  • Franklin and, 111–13, 115
  • Washington and, 2–3, 7, 12–13, 69, 78
• Continental Congresses:
  • Adams and, 27, 31–33, 56–57, 108, 122–24
  • and Declaration of Independence, 32–34, 47, 50, 57–59, 108
  • Hamilton and, 77–78
  • Jefferson and, 38, 56–57, 61, 108
  • Revolutionary War and, 5, 7–9, 74
• Coolidge, Calvin, 177
• Crisis, The (Paine), 10
• Cuba, 10, 232, 234, 241–42
• Cuban Missile Crisis, xvii, 231, 243–45

• Declaration of Independence, xi–xiii, 12, 272
  • and Adams, 32–36, 56–58, 108–9
  • dating of, 34, 36, 59
  • fiftieth anniversary of, 36, 50
  • and Franklin, 47, 57–58, 92, 108–10, 112, 136
  • and Jefferson, xvi, 33, 36, 46–51, 55–59, 61, 108–9
  • Preamble to, xvi, 46–47, 51, 58, 108–9
  • signing and approval of, 34, 36, 59–61, 92, 109, 112, 136
  • writing of, 58–59, 108–9
• Dewey, Thomas, 221–22, 224–25
• Dirksen, Everett M., 143
• Doar, John, 268
• Douglas, Stephen, 146–47, 240
• Dunlap Broadside, 59–60
• Dutch (Morris), 319–21

• Eichmann, Adolf, 205
• Einstein, Albert, 91–92, 94–96
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.:
  • civil rights and, 208, 211, 256–57
  • Columbia University presidency of, 220–21, 224
  • education of, 212–13, 217–18, 228
  • finances and, 208, 211–12, 214, 221
  • illnesses and injuries of, 212, 226, 228
  • Interstate Highway System and, 208, 211, 225
  • Kennedy and, 227, 236–37, 241–42
  • military career of, 191, 204, 206–10, 212–22, 225, 227–28, 236
  • Nixon and, 208–9, 223–24, 226–28
  • personality and demeanor of, 206–7, 211, 214
  • personal life of, 208–9, 212, 217–19, 224–25
  • physical appearance of, 204, 206, 216, 219, 223
  • presidency and, 35, 207–12, 220–28, 236–37, 241, 284, 289
  • religion and, 212, 227–28
  • Smith on, 206–28
  • U-2 shoot down and, 225–26
  • World War II and, 191, 206–8, 210, 212, 214–21
  • writing of, 211, 213, 216–20, 224
• Eisenhower, Mamie Doud, 208–9, 217–19
• Emancipation Proclamation, xiii, xvii, 152–54, 204
• Emperor, The (Kapuściński), 232
• executive power, 83, 297–98, 303

• Farmer, James, Jr., 262
• Faucette, Rachel, 71–72, 74
• Fear (Woodward), 297–98
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 251, 266–67, 302
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA), 260, 263
• Federalist Papers, The (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay), 68, 79–80, 83
• Felt, Mark (Deep Throat), 297, 302–3
• Final Days, The (Woodward and Bernstein), 297–98, 305
• First Indochina War, 210–11
• Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, The (Goodwin), 137–38
• Ford, Gerald R., 120, 180
  • Nixon and, 306–7, 314
  • presidency and, 306–7, 331–34, 336
  • Reagan and, 331–34, 336
  • vice presidency and, 332–34
• Founding Mothers:
  • letters of, 116–18, 121–25, 127, 130, 132–33, 136
  • Roberts on, 116–36
• France, 17, 128, 167–69, 179
  • Adams and, 21, 36–38, 41, 85, 123
  • Eisenhower and, 210–11, 213, 218, 222
  • Franklin and, 38, 49, 93, 103, 109–10, 112, 114, 136
  • Jefferson and, 18, 38, 54–55
  • Lindbergh and, 160–63, 167–68, 171, 175–77, 183
  • Revolutionary War and, 10–11, 36, 74, 109–10, 136
  • U.S. threatened by, 21–22, 41, 85–86, 122
  • World War II and, 180, 186, 189–93
• Franklin, Benjamin, xvi, 71, 318
  • Adams and, 38, 107, 114–15
  • birth of, 93, 99
  • Constitution and, 79, 92, 99, 111–13
  • and Declaration of Independence, 47, 57–58, 92, 108–10, 112, 136
  • diplomacy of, 98–99, 105–7, 109–10, 136
  • education of, 7, 93, 99
  • illnesses and death of, 38, 104, 112
  • Isaacson on, 91–115
  • Jefferson and, 57–58, 61, 66, 91, 103–4, 108–14
  • longevity of, 66, 93, 111–12
  • Madison and, 91, 114
  • personality and demeanor of, 12, 93, 101, 106, 114, 135
  • personal life of, 93, 106, 108, 111, 113, 135–36
  • physical appearance of, 91, 93–94, 103, 107, 113–15
  • popularity and fame of, 38, 92–93, 103, 106, 109–10
  • postal system and, 100, 135
  • and printing and newspaper business, 93, 99–100, 103–6, 108–10, 113
  • religious thinking of, 112–13
  • Revolutionary War and, 38, 93, 109–10, 136
  • scientific work and inventions of, 92–93, 95, 98–103, 110, 135
  • speeches of, 111–12
  • Washington and, 7, 12, 91, 103, 114
  • writing of, 93, 99–100, 107, 109
• Franklin, Deborah, 93, 106, 113, 135–36
• Franklin, James, 99–100, 113
• Franklin, William, 106, 108, 111
• French and Indian War, 5, 109
• Friendly, Henry J., 342, 347–48, 360

• Gallatin, Albert, 132
• Gandhi, Mahatma, 260–62
• Gates, Bill, 96–97, 346
• General Electric (GE), 223, 329–30
• George III, King of England, 10, 39–40, 47, 58–59
• George V, King of England, 174, 177
• Germany, 9, 208, 225, 227, 254
  • and Hitler’s rise to power, 186–89
  • Jews and, 165, 186–88, 197–205
  • Lindbergh and, 161–65, 176, 178–79
  • Nazis and, 161, 164–65, 187–88, 191, 197–200, 202–4, 207
  • World War II and, 189–94, 197–98, 202–3, 206–7, 217, 220
• Gerry, Elbridge, 61
• Gettysburg, Battle of, 154–55, 199
• Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 154, 252
• Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 363
• Goldwater, Barry, 294, 313–14
  • Reagan and, 317, 321–22, 331, 336
• Gomez, Tomas, 295
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns, xv, 137–59
  • on Johnson, 137–39, 142–43
  • on Lincoln, 137–40, 143–59
  • on Roosevelt, 137–42, 144, 158
• Gorbachev, Mikhail, 315, 319
• Gorsuch, Neil, 356, 358, 362
• Grant, Ulysses S., 67, 90, 118, 152, 155–56, 208, 318
• Great Britain, xii, 4–5, 17, 39, 49, 95, 128, 141, 169, 176, 235, 243, 351–52
  • and Declaration of Independence, 33, 57, 61
  • Eisenhower and, 210, 214–15, 217–19
  • Founding Mothers and, 118, 125
  • Franklin and, 93, 105–7, 109–11, 114, 135
  • Lindbergh and, 165, 175, 177
  • Revolutionary War and, 2, 8–10, 27, 32, 36, 59, 73, 75, 109–10, 118, 124, 134, 140
  • and War of 1812, 59, 125, 131–32
  • World War II and, 180, 186, 189–92, 214–17
• Gulf War, 309–10, 315

• Haig, Alexander, 305, 307
• Haldeman, Bob, 301–2
• Hamilton (musical), 68–70
• Hamilton, Alexander:
  • Adams and, 71, 85–86
  • awards and honors of, 68–70, 88–90
  • Burr and, 62, 68–69, 71, 86–88
  • Chernow on, 67–90
  • childhood and adolescence of, 68, 71–73
  • Constitutional Convention and, 78–79, 115
  • Constitution and, 79–80, 83, 90
  • death of, 62, 68, 70–71, 88–89
  • education of, 7, 72–73, 75–76
  • finances and, xvi, 18–19, 68, 70, 75, 77, 80–84, 89–90
  • French threat and, 22, 86
  • heritage of, xvi, 71–72, 74, 76, 85
  • intelligence of, 67–68, 73–74, 80, 90
  • Jefferson and, 18–19, 69, 71, 83, 86, 120
  • law career of, 75–77, 80, 82
  • Madison and, 71, 77–78, 83–84, 89
  • personality and demeanor of, 68, 76–77, 83, 85, 87, 126
  • personal life of, 68, 70, 76, 82, 84, 87, 135
  • physical appearance of, 67, 72–73
  • public opinion on, 69, 73, 87–88
  • Revolutionary War and, 7, 18–19, 68, 72–77, 80, 84–85, 90
  • speeches of, 73, 78–79
  • Washington and, xvi, 7, 18–22, 68–69, 73–78, 80, 84, 86, 89
  • writing of, 68, 70–75, 77–80, 83–84
• Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler, 76, 82, 84, 88–89, 117, 135
• Hamilton, James, 71–72
• Harlan, John Marshall, II, 308, 359
• Harriman, Pamela, 235
• Harrison, Benjamin, 61
• Hauptmann, Bruno Richard, 161, 163–64
• Hayden, Carla, ix–x, xv
• Hemings, Sally, 46, 53–56, 65
• Hitler, Adolf, 140, 225
  • rise to power of, 186–89
  • Winik on, 186–94, 197, 200
  • World War II and, 186–87, 189, 191–94, 207, 217, 256
• Hoover, J. Edgar, 266–67, 270, 292
• Houdon, Jean–Antoine, 103
• Hume, David, 106, 108–9
• Humphrey, Hubert, 284–85, 336
• Hussein, Saddam, 132, 311–12

• “I Have a Dream” (King), 247, 251–52, 264–66
• Innovators, The (Isaacson), 91, 96–97
• Interstate Highway System, 208, 211, 225
• Iran-Contra affair, 309, 340
• Iraq War, 95, 311–12, 316
• Isaacson, Walter, xv
  • on Einstein, 91–92, 94–96
  • on Franklin, 91–115
  • on geniuses, 94–98
  • on Jobs, 91–92, 94–97
  • on Kissinger, 91–92, 94–95, 98, 109
  • on Leonardo, 91–92, 98
• Israel, 205, 210, 314
• Italy, 192, 207, 215–17, 228

• Jackson, Andrew, 71, 89, 120, 318
  • Meacham on, 46, 49–50, 65
• Jacobson, Max, 234, 236, 243
• Japan, 140, 166, 186, 191, 214, 237, 256
• Jay, John, 68, 79–80, 83, 110, 136
• Jefferson, Martha, 30, 54, 127
• Jefferson, Thomas:
  • Adams and, 27, 29–30, 33, 35–36, 38, 50, 56, 58, 61–62, 66
  • Constitution and, 18, 83
  • death of, 36, 42, 48, 50–51, 53–55
  • and Declaration of Independence, xvi, 33, 36, 46–51, 55–59, 61, 108–9
  • D. Madison and, 63, 118, 130, 133
  • finances and, 19, 64, 82
  • France and, 18, 38, 49, 54–55
  • Franklin and, 57–58, 61, 66, 91, 103–4, 108–14
  • Hamilton and, 18–19, 69, 71, 83, 86, 120
  • legislative career of, 38, 52, 56–57, 61, 108
  • longevity of, 65–66
  • Louisiana and, 62, 119
  • Meacham on, xiv, 45–59, 61–66, 104
  • personality and demeanor of, 38, 56, 61, 64, 83
  • personal life of, 30, 46, 53–56, 127
  • physical appearance of, 30, 35, 45, 55, 63–64, 66
  • popularity and fame of, 30, 50, 56
  • presidency and, 27, 40–42, 45–46, 48, 52–53, 55–56, 61–65, 71, 85–86, 118, 130, 133
  • public speaking of, 61, 63–64, 133
  • Revolutionary War and, 7, 18–19, 30, 38
  • as secretary of state, 18–20, 48–49, 52, 55, 81, 83, 130
  • slavery and, xvi, 46–47, 51–56, 64–65
  • tombstone of, 47–48, 59
  • vice presidency and, 20, 41, 48–49, 62, 85–86
  • Washington and, 7, 18–20, 52, 63–65
• Jews:
  • anti–Semitism and, 161, 164–65, 188, 194, 197, 200
  • extermination of, 186–87, 191, 197–205
  • Germany and, 165, 186–88, 197–205
  • hiding bodies of, 199–200
• Jobs, Steve, 91–92, 94–97
• Johnson, Andrew, 156–57
• Johnson, Lady Bird, 120, 280, 282, 286, 288, 290–91
• Johnson, Lyndon B., 120
  • Caro on, 273–96
  • civil rights and, xvii, 142–43, 246, 267, 269, 275, 282, 294, 296
  • death of, 142, 296
  • finances and, 278–79, 295
  • Goodwin on, 137–39, 142–43
  • illnesses of, 280, 286, 296
  • Kennedy and, 239–40, 246–48, 275, 287–94, 296
  • legislative career of, 274–75, 278–86, 288–89
  • personality and demeanor of, 138, 142–43, 275, 285–86, 295–96
  • physical appearance of, 269, 273, 281, 286, 295
  • presidency and, 137–39, 142–43, 275, 278, 286–87, 291–96, 331
  • press and, 278, 284, 294
  • Roosevelt and, 274, 279–81
  • teaching career of, 295–96
  • vice presidency and, 239–40, 275, 287–91
  • Vietnam and, 142, 247, 275, 294–95
• Johnson, Samuel Ealy, Jr., 278–79

• Kapuściński, Ryszard, 232
• Keating, Kenneth, 244
• Kendall, Don, 143
• Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier, 235, 247–48, 290, 292–93
• Kennedy, John F., xvi, 35, 50
  • assassination of, 207, 231–32, 247, 267, 289–94
  • awards and honors of, xiii, 230, 237–38
  • and Bay of Pigs invasion, 232, 241–42
  • civil rights and, 241, 245–47, 252, 263–64, 266–67, 289, 294
  • Cuban Missile Crisis and, xvii, 231, 243–45
  • Eisenhower and, 227, 236–37, 241–42
  • illnesses and injuries of, 230, 234–38, 243, 275, 287
  • Johnson and, 239–40, 246–48, 275, 287–94, 296
  • King and, 245, 247, 252, 263, 265–67
  • legislative career of, 237–38, 275, 287
  • military career of, 234–37, 241
  • Nixon and, 237, 240–42, 304–5
  • personality and demeanor of, 230–31, 240
  • personal life of, 230, 234, 236, 248
  • physical appearance of, 229, 231, 235, 239–41, 246, 248, 287, 304
  • popularity and fame of, 232, 241–42
  • presidency and, 6, 227, 229–34, 235, 237–48, 263–64, 275, 287–91, 294
  • press and, 236–37, 239
  • Reeves on, 229–48
  • speeches of, 229–30, 241, 246
  • Vienna Summit and, 236, 242–43, 245
  • Vietnam and, 232, 247
• Kennedy, Joseph P., Jr., 237
• Kennedy, Joseph P., Sr., 234–35, 237, 246
• Kennedy, Robert, 234–35, 244–45
  • Johnson and, 239–40, 287–88, 292–93
  • King and, 245, 247, 251, 263, 266
• Khrushchev, Nikita, 210, 226, 233
  • Kennedy and, 236, 242–43, 245
• Killing Reagan (O’Reilly), 339
• King, Coretta Scott, 245, 251, 263
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., xvi
  • arrests of, 245, 263, 270
  • assassination of, 207, 251, 271–72
  • Branch on, 249–55, 257–72
  • civil rights and, xvii, 245, 247, 250–52, 254–55, 257–61, 264–72
  • Kennedy and, 245, 247, 252, 263, 265–67
  • nonviolence of, 251, 254, 260–62
  • physical appearance of, 249, 265, 269–70
  • religious beliefs of, 254, 258, 272
  • speeches of, 247, 251–52, 258, 264–66
  • wiretapping of, 266–67
• King, Martin Luther, Sr., 254, 258, 263
• Kissinger, Henry, 91–92, 94–95, 98, 109, 244

• Ladies of Liberty (Roberts), 116–17
• Lafayette, marquis de, 11, 74
• Lane, Harriet, 118, 134
• Lansing, John, Jr., 79
• Laski, Harold, 243
• Leadership in Turbulent Times (Goodwin), 137, 139
• Lee, Robert E., 151, 153, 155–56
• Leonardo da Vinci, 91–92, 98
• Lewis, John, 259, 262–63, 268
• Library of Congress, ix–x, xiii–xvii, 19, 37, 94, 103, 121, 134, 178
• Lincoln (film), 138, 158–59
• Lincoln, Abraham, xiii, xvi–xvii, 50, 65, 89, 247, 263, 265
  • assassination of, 118, 156–57
  • cabinet of, 138, 144, 148–49, 152–54, 156
  • Civil War and, xvii, 140, 144, 151–56, 204
  • Goodwin on, 137–40, 143–59
  • law career of, 148–50, 158
  • personality and demeanor of, 140, 145, 147–50, 153, 155–56, 158
  • personal life of, 118, 135, 156
  • physical appearance of, 137, 149–50, 152, 154, 157
  • presidency and, 65, 144–48, 150–57
  • press and, 147, 156–57, 252
  • security concerns of, 150–51
  • Seward and, 144–45, 149
  • slavery and, xvii, 145–47, 152–54, 157, 204
  • speeches of, 154, 156, 252
  • Stanton and, 148–49, 157
  • writing of, 145, 150–51, 153, 155
• Lincoln, Mary Todd, 117–18, 134–35, 144, 156
• Lincoln–Douglas debates, 146–47, 240
• Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 161, 165, 167, 177–79, 183
• Lindbergh, Charles:
  • airmail piloting and, 160, 166, 168–70
  • anti–Semitism of, 161, 164
  • awards and honors of, 175–78
  • Berg on, 160–84
  • conservationism of, 161, 181–82
  • death and burial of, 178, 182–84
  • finances and, 160, 168, 170, 175, 182
  • illegitimate children of, 162, 178–79
  • media and, 161, 163, 172, 176, 178–79, 182–84
  • personality and demeanor of, 161–62, 167, 178, 184
  • personal life of, 161–67, 177–79, 183–84
  • physical appearance of, 160, 162–64, 169, 171, 173, 177, 183
  • politics of, 161, 164–66, 179–80, 190
  • popularity and fame of, 160–66, 176–78, 181–82
  • Roosevelt and, 161, 166, 180–81
  • and son’s kidnapping and murder, 161, 163–65, 179
  • transatlantic flight of, 160–63, 165, 167, 169–77, 179, 183
  • writing of, 174–75, 178
• Lindbergh, Reeve, 179
• Long, Breckinridge, 202–3
• Louisiana, 52, 62, 119

• MacArthur, Douglas, 181, 207, 213–14, 222, 227–28
• McCarthy, Joe, 208, 211, 238
• McClellan, George, 151–53
• McCloy, John J., 202, 224–25
• McCullough, David, xv
  • on Adams, 26–44, 115
  • on history, 26–27, 30, 35, 37
• McNamara, Robert, 245, 295
• Madison, Dolley, 46, 89, 117–18
  • Jefferson and, 63, 118, 130, 133
  • physical appearance of, 125–27, 131–32
• Madison, James, 7, 46, 68, 82, 119, 261
  • and Articles of Confederation, 12–13, 18
  • Constitution and, 12–13, 79–80
  • Franklin and, 91, 114
  • Hamilton and, 71, 77–78, 83–84, 89
  • personal life of, 55, 118, 131, 133
  • presidency and, 15, 52, 131, 133
• Magna Carta, xii–xiii
• Mansfield, Mike, 284–85
• March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 246–47, 251–52, 264–66
• Marshall, George C., 191, 207–8, 214–16, 218–20
• Marshall, John, 41, 55, 63, 208
• Marshall, Thurgood, 161, 262, 308, 357
• Master of the Senate (Caro), 273–74, 278, 283, 294
• Meacham, John, 45–66
  • on Jefferson, xiv, 45–59, 61–66, 104
• Means of Ascent (Caro), 273–74, 278, 294
• Miranda, Lin–Manuel, 68–70
• Monroe, James, 52, 63, 71, 119, 127
• Monticello, xiii, 20, 46, 53, 66
• Morgenthau, Henry, Jr., 201–2, 205
• Morgenthau, Robert, 292
• Morris, Edmund, 319–21
• Morris, Robert, 75, 80
• Moses, Robert, 273–74, 277–78
• Mount Vernon, xiii, 60
  • Rubenstein’s visits to, 1–2
  • slaves at, 23, 126
  • Washingtons and, 1–4, 6, 10–11, 13, 21–23, 86, 118, 125, 128–30

• Napoleon I, Emperor of France, 11, 41, 49
• National Archives, x, xiii, 59–60, 120
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 257–59, 262
• National Book Festival, x, xiv
• New York Times, 26, 60, 265–66, 294, 298, 302, 304
• 9/11 attacks, 310–11
• 1944 (Winik), 185–87, 195, 204–5
• Nixon, Richard M, 20, 247
  • Eisenhower and, 208–9, 223–24, 226–28
  • executive power and, 297, 303
  • final days of, 305–6, 313–14
  • Kennedy and, 237, 240–42, 304–5
  • pardon of, 306–7, 314
  • physical appearance of, 240–41, 297, 303, 313
  • presidency and, 143, 227–28, 234, 240–41, 263, 297–99, 303–6, 309–10, 312–14, 331
  • resignation of, 298–99, 304–6, 314, 332
  • speeches of, 128, 224, 305
  • tapes of, 143, 297, 303–4
  • vice presidency and, 208–9, 223–24, 226–27
  • Watergate and, 298–99, 301, 304, 307, 313
  • Woodward on, 297–99, 301–7, 309–10, 312–14
• No Ordinary Time (Goodwin), 137–38, 158
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 220–22

• Obama, Barack, xv, 298, 310–11, 316
• O’Connor, Sandra Day, 343, 351, 353, 355
• O’Reilly, Bill, 339
• Orteig, Raymond, 168–70

• Paine, Thomas, 10, 56
• Paris, Treaty of, 40, 75, 77, 92, 110, 112, 114
• Parting the Waters (Branch), 249–50, 253, 255
• Passage to Power, The (Caro), 273–74, 278, 294
• Path to Power, The (Caro), 273–74, 278, 294
• Patton, George, 203–4, 207, 215
• Pearl Harbor, 141, 166, 179–80, 186, 191, 214, 280
• Pershing, John J., 213
• Pierce, Franklin and Jane, 133–34
• Pillar of Fire (Branch), 249–50, 253, 255
• Plan of Attack (Woodward), 298, 311
• Poor Richard’s Almanac, 93, 100, 109
• Powell, Colin, 309
• Power Broker, The (Caro), 273–74, 277–78
• Presidency of George Washington, The (Warren), 1–2
• President Kennedy (Reeves), 229–30, 232, 234, 236
• Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 237–38
• Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, 104

• Ray, James Earl, 251, 272
• Rayburn, Sam, 274, 279–80, 282, 288
• Reagan, Nancy, 319, 322–23, 326–27, 336–37, 340
• Reagan, Ronald:
  • acting career of, 317, 321–23, 325–29, 339
  • assassination attempt on, 338–39
  • Brands on, 317–41
  • childhood and adolescence of, 319, 324–28
  • debates of, 334–35, 339–40
  • finances and, 325, 329, 337
  • GE employment of, 329–30
  • governorship of, 317–18, 322–23, 327–28, 330, 334
  • injuries and death of, 338–40
  • personality and demeanor of, 317–20, 326–27, 332–37, 340
  • personal life of, 318, 322, 324–27, 339–41
  • physical appearance of, 317, 322, 325, 330, 336, 339, 341
  • politics of, 317–19, 321, 324, 328–30, 333–35, 337, 335–36
  • presidency and, 65, 234, 309, 315, 317–24, 330–40, 349
  • radio career of, 325, 328
  • Roosevelt and, 317, 328–29
  • SAG presidency of, 327–29
  • speeches of, 321–24, 330–31, 335
  • vice presidency and, 332–34
  • Woodward on, 309, 315
  • writing of, 325–27
• Reeves, Richard, 229–48
• Rehnquist, William H.:
  • death of, 343, 352–53
  • Roberts and, 342–43, 348–49, 352–53, 360
• Residence Act, 15–17
• Revolutionary War, 51, 129, 132, 140, 261
  • Adams and, 27, 32, 36, 38, 85, 110, 124
  • duration of, 32–33
  • end of, 40, 75, 77, 110
  • finances and supplies in, 77, 80–81, 84
  • Founding Mothers and, 117–20, 124–26, 128, 134
  • Franklin and, 38, 93, 109–10, 136
  • Hamilton and, 7, 18–19, 68, 72–77, 80, 84–85, 90
  • Jefferson and, 7, 18–19, 30, 38
  • letter writing in, 73–74
  • Washington and, xvi, 1–11, 18–19, 23–24, 40, 59, 68–69, 73–77, 118, 125–26, 134
• Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, The (Morris), 320–21
• Roberts, Cokie, xv, 116–36
• Roberts, John G., Jr.:
  • in arguing before Supreme Court, 343, 349–50
  • clerkships of, 342–43, 347–49, 364
  • on compensation for judges, 361–62
  • early judicial career of, 343, 350–51
  • as lawyer, 342–44, 349
  • personality and demeanor of, 343–44, 364
  • on Supreme Court, xv, 342–64
  • Supreme Court nominations of, 343, 351–54
• Roe v. Wade, 308–9
• Rommel, Erwin, 192–93
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 137–38, 141, 144, 158
• Roosevelt, Franklin D., xvi, 156
  • Churchill and, 141, 195–97
  • death of, 186, 197
  • Eisenhower and, 207, 210, 215–16
  • and extermination of Jews, 186, 200–204
  • fireside chats of, 166, 190, 201
  • Goodwin on, 137–42, 144, 158
  • illnesses of, 186–87, 194–97, 202
  • Johnson and, 274, 279–81
  • Lindbergh and, 161, 166, 180–81
  • Meacham on, 46, 49–50
  • personality and demeanor of, 190, 194, 204, 328
  • physical appearance of, 185, 195–96, 281
  • presidency and, 35, 65, 161, 166, 180–81, 185–86, 190–92, 195–97, 201, 204, 207, 210, 215–16, 274, 284, 317, 324, 328
  • Reagan and, 317, 328–29
  • Winik on, 185–87, 190–92, 194–97, 200–204
  • World War II and, 139, 141, 144, 161, 166, 180–81, 185–86, 190–92, 195–97, 204, 207, 214–16
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 194, 318, 320–21
  • Goodwin on, 137–39, 150
• Rowe, James H., 280
• Rubenstein, David M.:
  • awards and honors of, 2, 68
  • background of, xii–xiii, 46, 229–31, 250, 298, 314, 318
  • Berg interviewed by, xv, 161–84
  • Branch interviewed by, xv, 250–72
  • Brands interview by, 318–41
  • Caro interviewed by, xv, 274–96
  • Chernow interviewed by, xv, 68–90
  • Congressional Dialogues and, xiii–xiv
  • C. Roberts interviewed by, xv, 117–36
  • Goodwin interviewed by, xv, 138–59
  • on history, xi–xiii, xvii
  • Isaacson interviewed by, xv, 92, 94–115
  • J.G. Roberts interviewed by, xv, 343–64
  • McCullough interviewed by, xv, 27–44
  • Meacham interviewed by, xiv, 45–66
  • Mount Vernon visits of, 1–2
  • patriotic philanthropy of, x, xiii
  • Reeves interviewed by, 230–48
  • Smith interviewed by, 207–28
  • Warren interviewed by, 2–25
  • Winik interviewed by, 186–205
  • Woodward interviewed by, xv, 298–316
• Russell, Richard, 274, 282–84, 293–94

• Scalia, Antonin, 353, 355, 362–63
• Screen Actors Guild (SAG), 327–29
• Seward, William H., 144–45, 148–49, 153, 156–57
• Shadow (Woodward), 297, 306
• Shannon, Claude, 97
• Shriver, Sargent, 180, 245, 263
• Silence Dogood essays (Franklin), 99
• slaves, slavery, 16, 58, 126, 131
  • abolitionism and, 33, 51–52, 113, 146–48
  • Adams and, 33, 56
  • Civil War and, 53, 64, 153–54
  • Constitution and, 52, 138, 146–47, 152
  • freeing of, 1, 3, 23–24, 52–55, 65, 113, 146–47, 152–54, 157, 204, 255
  • Jefferson and, xvi, 46–47, 51–56, 64–65
  • Lincoln and, xvii, 145–47, 152–54, 157, 204
  • Washington and, 1, 3, 23–24
• Smith, Jean Edward, 206–28
• Smith, Truman, 165
• Sorensen, Ted, 230, 238, 241
• Soviet Union, 95, 233, 272, 313, 323
  • Eisenhower and, 210, 226
  • Kennedy and, 231, 242–45
  • Reagan and, 315, 319, 349
  • World War II and, 180, 186, 189–91, 193, 197–98, 203
• Spielberg, Steven, 138, 158–59
• Spirit of St. Louis (airplane), 160, 169–76
• Spirit of St. Louis, The (Lindbergh), 174–75, 177
• Stalin, Joseph, 185–86, 195–97, 210, 216
• Stanton, Edwin, 148–49, 157
• Stevens, Ned and Thomas, 71–72
• Stevenson, Adlai, 224, 237
• Stevenson, Margaret, 106
• Stewart, Potter, 180, 308
• Stone, William, 60
• Stuart, Gilbert, 15, 132
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, 262–63
• Suez Crisis, 210, 226
• Summary View of the Rights of British America, A (Jefferson), 56
• Summersby, Kay, 208, 218–19
• Sumner, Charles, 147
• Supreme Court, U.S., 88, 208, 223, 293
  • on abortion, 308–9
  • Ali case and, 307–8
  • briefs read by, 354–55
  • cases argued before, 343, 349–50, 354–57
  • cases discussed by, 354–55, 357–60
  • civil rights and, 211, 250–51, 256, 258–59, 268, 293, 357
  • clerks of, 342–43, 348–49, 360–61
  • in deciding which cases to hear, 353–55, 357
  • duties of chief justice of, 343, 358
  • Roberts on, xv, 342–64
  • Roberts’s nominations to, 343, 351–54
  • Woodward on, 297, 307–9
  • writing opinions of, 358–60

• Taft, Robert, 222–24, 284–85, 329
• Taft, William Howard, 137–39
• Talmadge, Herman, 283
• Team of Rivals (Goodwin), 137–39, 143–44, 158
• Tehran Conference, 195–96, 215–16
• Travell, Janet, 236
• Treasury building fire, 42
• Truman, Harry S., 26, 31, 210, 284, 328
  • Adams and, 28, 30, 35, 44
  • Eisenhower and, 35, 218, 220–21
• Trump, Donald, 297–98, 316

• U-2 spy planes, 225–26, 244

• Valley Forge, 8, 59, 125–26
• Vienna Summit, 236, 242–43, 245
• Vietnam, Vietnam War, 33, 95, 179, 300, 304, 336
  • Johnson and, 142, 247, 275, 294–95
  • Kennedy and, 232, 247
  • opposition to, 142, 207, 250, 271
• voting rights, 53, 142, 156, 250, 255, 267–69, 275
• Vrba, Rudi, 200–201

• Wallace, George, 245, 268–69
• War of 1812, 59, 125, 131–32
• Warren, Earl, 293–94, 359
• Warren, Jack D., Jr.:
  • on Revolutionary War, 2–11, 18–19, 23–24
  • on Washington, 1–25
• Warren, Mercy Otis, 124, 136
• Washington, D.C., ix, 2, 59, 63, 88, 90, 141, 232, 237, 243, 306, 344
  • Adams and, 27, 29, 42
  • building of, 15–16, 82, 129
  • Carter and, 314, 336
  • Civil War and, 151, 153
  • Congressional Dialogues and, xiii–xiv
  • Eisenhower and, 213–14, 218, 225
  • Founding Mothers and, 118, 125, 131–34
  • G. Washington and, 4, 6, 15–16
  • Home Rule and, 120–21
  • Jefferson and, 56, 63
  • Johnson and, 279–80, 282, 284–85, 292–93
  • King and, 251, 271
  • Lincoln’s secret trip to, 150–51
  • Lindbergh and, 167, 177
  • naming of, 17–18
  • physical appearance of, 42–43, 129, 132
  • Residence Act and, 15–17
  • Roberts and, 343, 349–52, 363
  • Rubenstein and, xii–xiv, 230
  • and War of 1812, 125, 131–32
  • Watergate and, 300, 303
• Washington, George, 67–69, 71, 179
  • Adams and, 14–15, 20–22, 27, 29, 33, 35, 40–41, 85–86
  • ambitions of, 4–5, 12–14
  • awards and honors of, x, xiii, 89, 115
  • cabinet of, 18–20, 50, 62, 80–83
  • childhood and adolescence of, 2, 4, 7, 12
  • Constitutional Convention and, 2–3, 7, 12–13, 69, 78
  • Constitution and, xvi, 7, 12–14, 40
  • Continental Congress and, 5, 74
  • death and funeral of, 1, 3, 22–23, 25, 129
  • farewell address of, 20–21, 84
  • finances and, 7–8, 337
  • Franklin and, 7, 12, 91, 103, 114
  • French threat and, 21–22, 85–86
  • Hamilton and, xvi, 7, 18–22, 68–69, 73–78, 80, 84, 86, 89
  • Jefferson and, 7, 18–20, 52, 63–65
  • personality and demeanor of, 3, 5–6, 8, 12–14, 17, 25, 40, 91, 113
  • personal life of, 118, 125–30
  • physical appearance of, 1, 5–7, 11, 15, 24, 35, 64, 125, 131–32
  • presidency and, xvi, 2–3, 13–15, 18–19, 27, 35, 40–41, 52, 62–65, 80–83, 127–28, 130, 337
  • public opinion on, 4, 6, 8, 12, 17, 21–22, 40, 86
  • retirements of, 3, 10–11, 21–22, 40–41, 86, 129
  • Revolutionary War and, xvi, 1–11, 18–19, 23–24, 40, 59, 68–69, 73–77, 118, 125–26, 134
  • slavery and, 1, 3, 23–24
  • Warren on, 1–25
  • Washington, D.C. and, 4, 6, 15–16
  • will of, 3, 23–24
  • as Your Excellency, 14–15
• Washington, Martha, xvi
  • on Hamilton, 76–77
  • husband’s death and, 23, 129
  • personal and public life of, 117–18, 125–30
  • physical appearance of, 24, 125–27
  • Revolutionary War and, 6, 118, 125–26
  • slavery and, 23–24
• Washington Post, 265–66, 284, 298–302, 306
• Watergate:
  • Nixon and, 298–99, 301, 304, 307, 313
  • Woodward on, 297–304, 307, 315
• Wetzler, Fred, 200–201
• Wiesel, Elie, 202
• Wilkins, Roy, 262
• Winik, Jay, 185–205
  • on Hitler, 186–94, 197, 200
  • on Roosevelt, 185–87, 190–92, 194–97, 200–204
• Wofford, Harris, 241, 246, 263
• Woodward, Bob, xv, 297–316
  • background of, 298–300
  • on Carter, 314–15
  • on Clinton, 315–16
  • on executive power, 297–98, 303
  • on G. H. W. Bush, 309, 315
  • on G. W. Bush, 311–12, 316
  • on 9/11 attacks, 310–11
  • on Nixon, 297–99, 301–7, 309–10, 312–14
  • on Obama, 298, 310–11, 316
  • on Reagan, 309, 315
  • on Supreme Court, 297, 307–9
  • on Watergate, 297–304, 307, 315
• World War I, 168, 187, 190–91, 271, 293
  • Eisenhower and, 206–7, 213–14, 217, 225
• World War II, 137, 280
  • D-Day invasion in, 49, 186, 190–93, 206–7, 212, 214–17
  • Eisenhower and, 191, 206–8, 210, 212, 214–21
  • and extermination of Jews, 197–98, 200–204
  • Hitler and, 186–87, 189, 191–94, 207, 217, 256
  • Kennedy and, 235–37, 241
  • Lindbergh and, 161, 164, 166, 179–81, 190
  • North African Campaign in, 192, 215–19
  • Reagan and, 326–27
  • Roosevelt and, 139, 141, 144, 161, 166, 180–81, 185–86, 190–92, 195–97, 204, 207, 214–16

• Yalta Conference, 185–86, 197
• Years of Lyndon Johnson, The (Caro), 273–74, 278, 283, 288, 294
• Young, Whitney, Jr., 262
• Youngblood, Rufus W., 290