A Most Imperfect Union by Ilan Stavans

Author:Ilan Stavans
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2014-05-18T16:00:00+00:00

INDEX

A

Abolition, 39, 67, 97

Abortion, 201

Abu Ghraib prison, abuses at, 229, 230

Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus Syndrome (AIDS), death rate from, 214

Adams, Abigail, 58, 59

Adams, John, 42, 58, 59, 70, 111

Adams, John Quincy, 58, 73, 224

Adams, Sam, 57

Adorno, Theodore, 155

Adventures of Huck Finn, The (Twain), slavery and, 94

Advertising, 180

Affirmative action, 205

Afghanistan War, 226

“After Black Power, Women’s Liberation” (Steinem), 195

Ahab, Captain, 90

Airplanes, 116, 117

Al-Qaeda, 226

Alcohol

ban on, 136, 138

illegal trade in, 137

Alcoholics Anonymous, founding of, 148

Alcoholism, 171

Alcott, Louisa May, 89

Aldrin, Edwin “Buzz,” 197

Algren, Nelson, 168

Alien life, obsession with, 162

All in the Family, 199

Allen, Woody, 215

Allerton, John, 19

American culture, 87

immigrants and, 126

American Dream, 7, 178

American Language, The (Mencken), 71

American Mercury, 71

American Revolution, 38, 43, 44, 50, 51

Anarchism, 138, 139

Ancestry.com, 190

Anthony, Susan B., 85, 196

Anti-Semitism, 151

Anticommunist hysteria, 167, 168

Apollo 11: 197

Arendt, Hannah, 155

Armstrong, Neil, 197

Assimilation, 75, 127, 174

Automobiles, first, 119

Aztecs, 16, 63

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