bill, 267–72
labor unrest, 39, 151
LaFollette, Robert, 147
Lake Charles, La., 218
Lamar, Lucius, 156–57, 158, 543
land assessments, 84
Landon, Alf, 164–65
Lanham, Fritz, 432
Laski, Harold, 40
Lasswell, Harold, 45, 319, 373–74, 481–82
Latin America, 22–23, 117, 322, 439, 646–47
Latvia, 105, 277, 356
Laurence, William, 403, 404–5, 410, 428
Lavery, Urban, 558
Law of December 1, 80
Law of War, The (Risley), 99–100
Lawrence, Ernest, 613
Lawrence, Geoffrey, 71
Lawson, B. V., 89
Lead Pencil Association, 229
League of Nations, 39, 102, 288, 290, 293, 296, 407
Lebed, Mykola, 445
LeCompte, Karl, 204
Lederer, Emil, 319, 496
Lee, Joshua, 308
Lehman, Herbert, 66, 228, 242, 465
LeMay, Curtis, 350, 445–46, 447, 448, 450–51, 469
Lemkin, Raphael, 102
Lend-Lease, 305–7, 310, 311, 393, 406, 637
Lenin, V. I., 94, 105
Leningrad, 354, 355
Leuchtenburg, William, 37, 99
Lever, Asbury, 146
Lewis, John L., 4, 230, 571, 627
Lewis, Sinclair, 281
Liaison Office for Personnel Management, 622
liberal democracy, 23
as abandoned in Soviet Union, 55
alleged 1920s triumph of, 103–5
debates over validity of, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 32
decisions legitimized by, 18–19
Mussolini’s denunciation of, 113
New Deal as test of, 9–10, 25, 50
proliferation of threats to, 39, 43–44, 46, 114–17, 121
World War II as threat to, 46
liberalism, 4, 529–30
Liberia, 89
Libya, 68, 69, 510
Lichtenstein, Nelson, 627
Life, 89–90, 411–12, 416
Lilienthal, David, 416, 432, 453–54, 638, 644
Lincoln, Abraham, 22, 89, 133, 200, 212, 318, 335, 337, 470
black equality rejected by, 139
Lincoln Memorial, 90
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 65, 69, 511
Lindbergh, Charles, 61, 62, 64, 65, 69–70, 71, 281, 303, 304, 322, 506, 511
Lindberghflug, Der (Brecht), 62
Link, Arthur, 145–46, 539
Lippmann, Walter, 30–31, 34, 36, 120, 161, 255, 298, 306, 316, 332, 360, 369, 407, 414, 496, 531, 635
creation of UN desired by, 415
dictatorship promoted by, 118–19, 121, 123, 124
New Deal criticized by, 44–45
on U.S. interest in World War II, 358
liquidity, 38
literacy tests, 84, 134
Lithuania, 277, 356
livestock, 251
lobbyists, 478
Locke, John, 109
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 148, 597
Loewenstein, Karl, 32, 105–6, 110, 528
Logan, Rayford, 138, 176
logrolling, 263
London, England, 41, 351
London Charter, 76, 78
Long, Benjamin F., 145
Long, Breckenridge, 67, 68, 69, 71, 94, 510
Long, Huey, 128, 161, 241, 292, 471
Long Telegram, 413–14
Lonn, Ella, 169
Lorwin, Lewis, 237–38
Los Alamos, 349, 403, 462, 482–83, 614
Los Angeles Times, 270, 294, 316, 446
Louisiana, 136, 140, 165, 204, 426, 566
Loving v. Virginia, 137
Low Countries, 40, 274, 279, 319
Lowi, Theodore, 19, 493
Loyalty Review Board, 459–61
Lozier, Ralph, 263, 264
Lubyanka prison, 82
Lucas, Scott, 205, 220–21
Lucas-Green bill, 568
Luce, Clare Boothe, 89–90, 433
Luce, Henry, 59–60, 244, 277
Luckner, Felix von, 284
Ludlow, Louis, 291
Luftwaffe, 64
lumber, 262
Lusitania, 289–90
Luxembourg, 418, 593
lynchings, 84, 86–87, 96–97, 141, 149, 166, 176, 187, 521–22, 546
MacArthur, Douglas, 47, 68, 410
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 17
MacLeish, Archibald, 47, 321
Madison, James, 119
Madison Square Garden Bowl, 67
Madonna of Loreto, 507
Magnitogorsk, USSR, 79
Mahon, George, 450
Maier, Charles, 109
mail-opening program, 322
Mak, Geert, 97
malaria, 171–72
Malaya, 41
Manchuria, Japan’s conquering of, 39, 102
Mandelstam, Osip, 77
manganese, 288
Manhattan Project, 14, 349, 362, 403–5, 414, 420, 430, 444, 463, 482, 613
Mann, Thomas, 50, 100
Mao Zedong, 451
Marcantonio, Vito, 604–5
March Field, 218
March on Rome, 63, 112, 530
Marco Polo Bridge, 295
Margalit, Avishai, 485, 486
Marland, Ernest, 570
Marreco, Anthony, 518
Marshall, George C., 317, 318, 410, 417–18, 437–38
Marshall Plan, 417–18
Martin, Joseph, 202, 214, 444
Marx, Karl, 237
Marxism, 463
Maryland, 22, 136
Mason, Noah, 330
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