Chambers-Hiss case and
cold war triumphalism and
Cuban missile crisis and
economic policy and .
Europe contrasted with
foreign influence decline of
foreign policy of
historical memorials in
Israeli policy of
liberal center’s collapse in
neoliberalism and
terrorism and
Vatican’s mutual interests with
See also anti-Americanism
United States of Europe, The (Reid)
University of Leuven (Louvain)
Van Doren, Mark
Varnhagen, Rahel
Vatican. See John Paul
Vatican
Vatican
Vauchez, André
Venezuela
Vercel, Roger
Verhofstadt, Guy
Versailles
Versailles, Treaty of ()
Vichy regime
memory/forgetting of
victim memory
Vidal de La Blache, Paul
Vienna
Vienna summit ()
Vietnam War
cold war and
policy architects of
See also Cambodia
violence. See terror and terrorism; war
Virgin Mary
Vittorini, Elio
Vlaams Blok (now Vlaams Belang)
Vlaams National Verbond
Voegelin, Eric
Vogt, John
Volksunie
wages
Waldeck, Rosa
Walicki, Andrzej
Wallonia
Walt, Stephen
Walters, Vernon
Walzer, Michael
Wandervogel clubs
war
European peacekeeping and
French-German history of
memorials.
memory of
See also preventive war; specific wars
“War Fair” (Walzer)
War on Terror. See terror and terrorism
Warren, Robert Penn
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw University
Wat, Alexander
Watergate
Watt, Donald Cameron
wealth
United States and
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney
Wedgwood, Josiah.
Weimar Republic
Weinstein, Allen
Weisberg, Jacob
Welch, Jack
welfare reform
welfare state
America vs. Europe and
Britain and
as economic investment
European continuance of
financing of
See also social policy
Wells, H. G.
Welty, Eudora
We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History (Gaddis)
West, James
West Bank
settlement encouragement in
West Midland Potteries.
Weygand, Maxime
Wheeler, Earle
White, Harry Dexter
Whitehead, Alfred North
Whittaker Chambers (Tanenhaus)
Wiesel, Elie
Wieseltier, Leon
Wigan Pier (Britain)
Williams, Raymond
Wilson, Woodrow
Witness (Chambers)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Wojtyla, Karol. See John Paul
Wolf, Markus (“Mischa”)
Woolf, Stuart
Woolf, Virginia
work hours
World Bank
World Health Organization
World Restored, A (Kissinger)
World War
Flemish activists and
French experience and
historical museum.
Romania and
World War
fall of France and
Flemish activists and
French memory and
idea of evil and
Italy and
Romania and
See also Holocaust; resistance movements
Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon).
Yadin, Yigal
Yahya Khan
Yale University
“Yogi and the Commissar, The” (Koestler)
Yom Kippur War ()
Yugoslavia
Yushchenko, Viktor
Zablotow (Galicia)
Zakaria, Fareed
Zelikow, Philip ..
Zhou Enlai
“Zinc” (Levi)
Zionism
Arendt’s view of
discrediting of
Koestler and
Palestinians’ saga as mirror of
pre-public opinion and
Sperber and
United States and
Zola, Émile
Zweig, Stefan
1 David Cesarani, Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (New York: Free Press, 1999).
2 Myriam Anissimov, Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist (Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1999).
3 Manès Sperber, All Our Yesterdays. Vol. 1: God’s Water Carriers; Vol. 2: The Unheeded Warning; Vol. 3: Until My Eyes Are Closed with Shards (Holmes & Meier, 1991-94).
4 Hannah Arendt, Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995).
5 Le premier homme (Gallimard, Paris, 1994).
6 Louis Althusser, L’Avenir dure longtemps (Paris: Stock, 1993); trans: The Future Lasts Forever (New York: New Press, 1993).
7 Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life (New York: Pantheon, 2004).
8 My Correct Views on Everything (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s, 2006).
9 Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time (New York: Doubleday, 1996).
10 His successor as Pope Benedict XVI.
11 From Oslo to Iraq (New York: Pantheon, 2004). The present essay was first published as an introduction to this collection of Said’s essays.
12 Strange Victory: Hitler’s Conquest of France (New York: Hill & Wang, 2001).
13 The translation under review, Realms of Memory: The Construction of the French Past, is a three-volume abridgment published in 1998 by Columbia University Press.
14 Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
15 Sam Tanenhaus, Whittaker Chambers: A Biography (New York, Random House, 1997).
16 Ernest May and Philip Zelikow, eds., The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).
17 Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, “One Hell of a Gamble”: Khrushchev, Castro and Kennedy, 1958-1964 (New York: Norton, 1997).
18 Philip Nash, The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy and the Jupiters, 1957-1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
19 William Bundy, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (New York: Hill & Wang, 1998).
20 John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (New York: Penguin, 2006).
21 T. R. Reid, The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy (New York: Penguin, 2004).
22 Jeremy Rifkin, The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream (New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2004).
23 Timothy Garton Ash, Free World: America, Europe and the Surprising Future of the West (New York: Random House, 2004).
24 I am indebted for the above to the work of the sociologist Georg Vobruba of the University of Leipzig, who has done important studies of the impact of varieties of unemployment insurance on the postindustrial workforce. See, for example, his “Social Policy for Europe,” in The Social Quality of Europe, ed. Wolfgang Beck, Laurent van der Maesen, and Alan Walker (Boston: Kluwer Law International, 1997) 105-120.
25 Moreover, in John Gray’s words, “Neoliberalism in Britain has proved a self-limiting project.” Endgames (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1997), 3.