Albany, FBI regional bureau in, 41, 55, 71, 104n28, 122n13
Alien Registration Act. See Smith Act
American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF), 47–48, 101n5, 102n5, 110n22
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, 21, 28, 30, 42, 107n10
American Communist Party (CPUSA), 75, 78, 106n4, 122n11
anarchism and anarchists, 11, 43–44, 56, 101n1, 119n62, 122n14; Macdonald and, 38, 40, 57, 67
Ann Arbor, FBI regional bureau in, 82
anti-communism, 34, 39, 43–46, 57–58, 82–83, 123n24, 128n15
anti-Stalinism, ix, 22, 31, 42–43, 45, 57–58, 90; Howe and, 17, 78, 80, 82
Arendt, Hannah, 6, 53–54, 100n1, 101n1
Authors League of America, 21, 26
Baker, Carlos, 77
Baltimore, FBI regional bureau in, 19, 24
Barrett, William, 49, 98n6, 99n6, 117n31, 118n31
Beginning of the Journey, The (D. Trilling), 20, 106n5
Bolshevism and Bolsheviks, 2, 40, 42, 91, 98
Boston, FBI regional bureau in, 19, 24, 71, 104n28, 120n2, 123n19, 123nn22–23; and Dissent, 75, 78, 82–83; and Howe, 78–80, 122n13
Burnham, James, 58, 90–91, 113n33, 120n1, 127n11
Bush, George W., 2, 12, 32, 89, 103n18
Cambridge, FBI regional bureau in, 72, 79
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 7, 10, 12, 103n17, 104n20, 126n6; and Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), 34, 47, 97, 101n5, 115n42, 124n26; and Encounter, 46–49, 101n5; and Josselson, 47–49, 97, 101n5, 117n29
Chambers, David, 106n6
Chambers, Whittaker, 20, 105n4, 106n5, 107nn13–14, 110nn18–19; at Columbia University, 19–20, 21, 24; FBI dossier, 13, 19, 21, 23–26, 32, 108n16, 109n17, 111n29; and Hiss, 23, 107nn14–15, 108n16; Middle of the Journey, 19, 23–25, 32, 107–8n15, 108n16; and L. Trilling, 13, 19, 21, 23–26, 32, 52, 107–8n15, 108n16, 111n29, 113n36, 115n40
Chiaromonte, Nicola, 63
Chicago, FBI regional bureau in, 22, 58, 123n20
civil liberties, 15, 30, 34, 94, 99n11, 104n27, 126n3; Cold War and, 11, 34, 72, 85, 94, 109n20; Constitution and, 3–4, 10, 41, 85, 125n30; McCarthyism and, 17, 34, 72, 88; national security and, 3–4, 10–11, 17, 26, 85, 126n3; Nineteen-Eighty-Four and, 87–88, 94; Smith Act and, 26, 72, 74; Supreme Court and, 26, 83, 109n20, 125n30
Cleveland, FBI regional bureau in, 22
Cold War, 2, 8, 99n8, 109n20, 116n29, 124n26, 128n13; Communist Party and, 41, 72, 105n1; FBI and, x, 3, 5, 7, 11, 34, 41, 71–72, 94, 103n9, 112n30, 115n8; New York Intellectuals and, 7, 34, 52, 72, 100n12, 101n5; vs. “9/11” and later, 94, 100n12; Orwell and, 2–3, 34, 88, 90–92, 94, 100n12; as Red Scare, x, 7, 27, 85, 128n15
Columbia University, 19, 21, 24, 27, 29, 33–34, 67, 107n9, 110n22
communism and communists, 20, 41, 55, 101n5, 110n20, 113n33, 122n15, 128n13; Chambers and, 26–27, 108n16, 115n40; Cold War and, 41, 128n13; Columbia University and, 19, 21, 24, 33; Communist Party (CP), 19, 23, 31, 38, 46, 105n1, 105n4, 107n14, 110n21; Hoover and, 24, 41, 42, 46; Kazin and, 30–32, 112n29; Macdonald and, 38, 41–42, 46, 72, 75, 78, 118n39; L. Trilling and, x, 14–15, 102n7, 106nn6–7, 109nn18–19, 110n22, 114n39
Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF), 6, 34, 47, 97, 101n5, 102n5, 115n42, 124n26
Denver, FBI regional bureau in, 24
Detroit, FBI regional bureau in, 19, 28, 29, 125n29, 125n31; and Howe, 71, 82–83
Dissent (magazine), 13, 16–17, 48, 72, 74–76, 78, 81–83, 104n27, 123n26
Encounter (magazine), 46, 58, 62, 66, 103n11, 112n29, 116n24, 116n29; Josselson and, 47–49, 101n5; Kristol and, 46–47, 66; Macdonald and, 46–49, 58, 62, 66, 116n24, 116n29
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 7, 10–11, 15–16, 53, 112n29, 115n41, 126n6; and Cold War, 71–72; vs. “egghead” intellectuals, 5, 17, 112n30; and Experiment in Terror, 49, 56; and Howe, 31–32, 38–40, 49, 71–79, 81–83, 121nn3–4, 121n7; as “Keystone Cops,” 34; and Macdonald, 37–46, 49–51, 55–60, 64–68, 104n26, 111n28, 117n37; and security, 10–11, 14, 16, 26, 32, 40, 43, 71; Security Index of, 40, 46, 65, 72, 75, 80–81; and L. Trilling, 13–15, 21–28, 30–35, 102n7, 105n1, 108n16, 112n30. See also national security; entries for specific regional bureaus
freedom. See civil liberties
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 6, 10, 97, 103n12
Goldman, Eric, 55, 62, 99n10, 117n36, 117n51, 118nn42–43; White House Festival of the Arts, 54, 60, 63
Hellman, Lillian, 26, 54, 110n21
Hemingway, Ernest, xi, 13, 39, 77, 115n41
Heston, Charlton, 62, 64, 118nn47–48
Hiss, Alger, 23, 100n12, 107nn14–15, 108n16, 109n19
Hiss-Chambers case, 19, 23, 30, 107n13, 128n15
Hitchens, Christopher, 40, 105n29
Hollywood Ten, 26, 34, 74, 110n21
Hook, Sidney, 6, 22, 42, 47, 49, 66, 106n6, 108–9n16, 122n11
Hoover, J. Edgar, 3, 24, 27, 93, 115n1; and Macdonald, x, 37, 41–46, 49–50, 56, 60
Horenstein, Irving (aka Irving Howe), 71, 75–76, 79, 81, 83–84, 121n3, 122n13, 123n19
House on 92nd Street, The (film), 43
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), 23, 72–73, 112n29, 121n7
Howe, Irving: at Brandeis University, 75, 77–78, 82, 123n21; and Jewishness, 6, 14–15, 124n26; and Labor Action, 76, 82, 122n15; A Margin of Hope, 17, 77, 105n30, 124n26; and Mass Culture Criticism and Dissent, 123n23, 125n28; and New International, 76, 90; Politics and the Novel, 77, 125n26; at Princeton University, 77, 80, 104n28; and socialism 77, 80–83, 124n26; at Stanford University, 70, 75, 78; The U.A.W. and Walter Reuther, 80; at University of Michigan, 77, 82; at Wayne State University, 82, 125n31
Independent Socialist League (ISL), 71–73, 75–76, 80, 82, 120n1, 122nn14–15, 123n15, 123n20
Johnson, Lyndon, 32, 56, 111nn27–28, 112n29; and JFK, 28, 50; and Vietnam War, 50–55, 60–63; White House Festival of the Arts, 21, 28, 102n7
Josselson, Michael, 106nn5–6, 116n23, 116nn25–27, 117n29; and CCF, 6, 47, 97, 101n5; and Encounter, 47–49, 101n5
Kazin, Alfred, 53–54, 106n8, 112n32, 114n39; FBI dossier, 5–7, 27, 30–32, 73, 102n7, 111n29, 112n29, 121n7
Kennedy, John F., 28, 50, 56, 60, 87, 119n53
Kristol, Irving, 6, 47, 66, 116n26
Krupnick, Mark, 21, 105n2, 106n7
Labor Action (newspaper), 76, 82, 122n15
Leninism and Leninists, 42–43, 61
Liberal Imagination, The (L. Trilling), 28, 30, 109n19, 111n26
Los Angeles, FBI regional bureau in, 24, 123n23
Luce, Henry, 38, 57, 67, 108n16, 124n26
Macdonald, Dwight: “America! America!” 48, 117n29; and Communist Party, 38, 41–42, 46, 72, 75, 78, 118n39; as a “Critical American,” 16, 67, 74, 104n25, 116n24, 118n41; Discriminations, 65, 117n35, 119n52; and Dissent, 13, 48, 116n25; drinking problem of, 50, 58; and Esquire, 49–50, 56, 64; and Fortune, 38, 55, 57, 109n18; Memoirs of a Revolutionist, 65, 118n38; A Moral Temper, 104n25, 115n2; and socialism, 13, 16, 38, 40, 42, 76; and Twentieth Century, 48, 59, 104n25, 116n24; writer’s block of, 50
Managerial Revolution, The (Burnham), 90
Marxism and Marxists, 11, 17, 21–22, 78, 98n3, 104–5n29, 106n8, 108n16, 114n40
Masters of Deceit (Hoover), 46
McCarthy, Joseph, 17, 24, 41, 55, 72, 74, 83–84, 128n15
McCarthy, Mary, 6, 22, 54, 59, 100n1
McCarthyism, 3, 7, 16–17, 27, 34, 72, 75, 88,
Miami, FBI regional bureau in, 71
Middle of the Journey, The (L. Trilling), 27, 30–32, 106n6, 107n12, 107–8n15, 109n19, 114n37, 114n40; Chambers and, 13, 19, 23–25, 108n16
Mission to Moscow (film), 42
Moscow, 21–22, 26, 42, 106n7, 107n10
Nation (magazine), 22, 30, 119n62
National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP), 19, 21, 105n2, 106n7
national security, x, 3–4; and elastic guidelines, 12; and FOIA, 10, 12; and the intellectual Left, 11, 16–17, 26, 32; and “normal Intelligence,” 5–6; policies as threat to constitutional rights, 39–40, 84–85, 89, 92, 94, 126n3; and Smith Act, 26
National Security Agency (NSA), 4, 89, 99n11, 103n17, 126n6, 127n9
Nazism and Nazis, 34, 43, 45, 91, 100n1, 106n4, 125n3
Newark, FBI regional bureau in, 71, 77, 104n28
New Haven, FBI regional bureau in, 24
New International (magazine), 76, 90
New Left, xi, 39, 74, 101n5, 121n8
New Republic (magazine), 22, 30, 120n62
New York, FBI regional bureau in, 22–24, 41, 43, 45–46; and Howe, 71, 78; and L. Trilling, 19, 27–28
New Yorker (magazine), 45–46, 55–57, 65, 111n26, 119n62, 126n5
New York Intellectuals, 12, 14, 61, 87, 97, 99n7, 100n1, 100n12, 101n3; and Cold War, 5, 7, 34, 52, 72, 100n12, 101n5; as “eggheads,” 5, 17, 112n30; FBI surveillance of, 6–7, 13–14, 21, 34, 66, 72; and Partisan Review, 14, 52, 99n7, 100n1, 101n3, 101n5
New York Review of Books (magazine), 54, 63, 111n28
New York Times, 27, 46, 54, 60, 100n12, 111n29
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 2, 4, 87–88, 90–94, 100n12, 105n29
Northbridge, Clifton Bennet, 43–45, 116n18
Orwell, George, 15, 66, 87, 88–95, 100n12, 120n63, 123n26, 128n15
Partisan Review (PR; magazine), 77, 87, 95, 97, 98n6, 99nn6–7, 101n3, 113n35, 122n14. See also New York Intellectuals
Philadelphia, FBI regional bureau in, 24, 51
Plastrik, Stanley, 71, 74, 78, 122n15
politics (magazine), 38–46, 57, 66, 68, 116n18, 116n21, 116n24, 119n62, 123n15; and anarchism and anarchists, 38, 40, 43–44, 56–57, 119n62; Hoover and, 41–46, 56, 60; Howe and, 16, 74, 76; Macdonald and, 16, 38, 40–42, 46, 56, 65, 76, 116n24
Popular Front policy, 22, 44, 91
PR. See Partisan Review (PR; magazine)
Princeton University, 77, 80, 104n28
privacy, x, 5, 6, 40, 72–73, 81, 88–89, 92–93; Constitution and, 3–4, 10, 41, 85, 125n30
Rahv, Phillip, 6, 27, 38, 49, 57
Rebel in Defense of Tradition, A (Wreszin), 60, 104n25, 115n2
Red Scare, x, 7, 27, 85, 128n15
Revolutionary Workers League (RWL), 21–23, 30, 107n11
Rorty, James, 22
Roth, Phillip, 31, 52, 54, 112n31
San Francisco, FBI regional bureau in, 24, 49, 123n23
Schrecker, Ellen, 102n9, 115n8
Schwartz, Delmore, 31, 98n6, 99n6, 113n35
security. See national security
Security Index, FBI’s, 40, 46, 65, 72, 75, 80–81
Smith Act (Alien Registration Act), x, 26, 72, 74–75, 79, 83, 109n20
Snowden, Edward, 4, 99n11, 100n12, 127n9
Sobell, Morton, 46
socialism and socialists, 31, 106n8, 124n26
Socialist Workers Party (SWP), 16, 22, 26, 38, 42, 46, 80, 107n10, 120n1
Soviet Union (USSR/Russia), 19–20, 40, 57, 98n3, 105–6n4, 106n5, 112n29, 122n10, 126n6; Cold War and, 27, 34, 71, 90, 124n26; Howe and, 17, 71, 76, 80, 124n26
Stalin, Joseph, 17, 31, 57, 74, 87, 90
Stalinism and Stalinists, 6, 30, 40–42, 44, 71–72, 90–91, 114n37, 128n13
Stanford University, 70, 75, 78
Stevenson, Adlai, 5, 17, 104–5n29
St. Louis, FBI regional bureau in, 71
Struggle for the World, The (Burnham), 90, 127n11
terrorism, 2, 4, 88, 92; and ISIS, 89, 90; and “9/11” (September 11, 2001), ii, 89, 100n12
Time (magazine), 26, 63–64, 105–6n4, 108n16, 124n26
Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson, The (Goldman), 60, 117n36, 118nn42–43, 119n51
Trilling, Diana, 6, 20, 29, 47, 106nn5–6, 111n26, 113n36
Trilling, Lionel; and Jewishness, 6, 14–15, 21, 27–28; The Liberal Imagination, 28, 30, 109n19, 111n26; and National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP), 19, 21, 105n2, 106n7; “Our Country and Our Culture” (PR symposium), 31, 113n34. See also Middle of the Journey
Trotsky, Leon, 16–17, 19, 22, 28, 76, 107n10, 123n26,
Trotskyism and Trotskyists, 14, 19, 21, 33, 106n7, 107n11, 112n30; Howe and, 16–17, 31, 71–72, 76–78, 82–83, 121n7; ISL and, 71–72, 76, 82, 120n1, 123n20; Macdonald and, 16, 38–39, 42–46, 52, 55, 58, 71–72; Partisan Review and, 77, 122n14
Twentieth Century (magazine), 48, 59, 104n25, 116n24
University of Michigan, 77, 82
U.S. Constitution. See under civil liberties; national security
Vietnam War, 50–55, 60–63, 107n10
Wallace, Henry, 15, 45, 55, 118n38
Washington, D.C., FBI regional bureau in, 24, 42–44
Wayne State University, 82, 125n31
White House Festival of the Arts, 21, 50, 52, 60–64; Goldman and, 54, 60; Johnson and, 28, 50, 60, 102n7, 121n7; Kazin and, 102n7; Lowell and, 53, 54; Macdonald and, x, 13, 28, 32, 50, 52, 61–62, 64, 121n7; L. Trilling and, 21, 28
Wilson, Edmund, 14, 22, 42, 106n7
Winchell, Walter, 44
Wreszin, Michael, 60–61, 104n25, 115n2, 116n24, 116n28, 119n49, 119n56
Yaddo, 106n6, 108–9n16, 111n29, 112n29
Zanuck, Darryl, 43