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Acholi people, Ref1, Ref2
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Democracy, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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Marx and, Ref1, Ref2
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“Adventure of the Empty House, The” (Doyle), Ref1
Adventures of Augie March (Bellow), Ref1
Advise and Consent (Drury), Ref1
Affluent Society (Galbraith), Ref1
Afghanistan, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
American evangelizing in, Ref1
British alliance and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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elections of 2004 and whistle-blowers, Ref1
Pakistan and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
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Vidal and, Ref1, Ref2
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AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), Ref1
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Al Adwan nuclear facility, Ref1
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Alexander the Great, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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Alexander II of Russia, Ref1
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Algeria, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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al-Qaeda, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10
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Al-Zaytuna Mosque, Ref1
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Ambassadors, The (Strether), Ref1
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America, as banana republic, Ref1
America First, Ref1, Ref2
American Bible Society, Ref1
American Civil War
Dickens and, Ref1
Faulkner and, Ref1, Ref2
Lincoln and, Ref1
Marx and, Ref1
Twain and, Ref1, Ref2
American Communist Party, Ref1
American Constitution, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
American Convention on Human Rights, Ref1
American evangelizing, in the military, Ref1
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American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Ref1, Ref2
American Journal of Psychiatry, Ref1
American libido, and Updike, Ref1
American Mercury, The, Ref1
American Newspaper Publishers Association, Ref1
American Notes for General Circulation (Dickens), Ref1
American Revolution, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7
American Scene, The (James), Ref1
American University, Ref1
American University of Beirut, Ref1
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“So then—off I fucked,” Ref1
Amis, Martin
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Einstein’s Monsters, Ref1
Experience, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million, Ref1
Nabokov and, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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Anglican Communion, Ref1
Anglo-German Naval Agreement, Ref1
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Anglosphere Challenge, The (Bennett), Ref1
animal behaviorism, Ref1
Animal Farm (cartoon), Ref1
Animal Farm (Orwell), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
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story of publication, Ref1
Animal Liberation (Singer), Ref1
animal rights, Ref1, Ref2
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Annotated Lolita, The (Appel, Jr., ed.), Ref1
“Annus Mirabilis” (Larkin), Ref1
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anti-Americanism, Ref1
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Anti-Imperialist League, Ref1
Antimemoires (Malraux), Ref1
anti-Semitism, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
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Appel, Alfred, Jr., The Annotated Lolita, Ref1
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Aquariums of Pyongyang, The (Kang), Ref1
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Aquino, Benigno, Ref1
Arab Spring of 2011, Ref1
“Arab street,” Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
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Aslam, Nadeem, Ma
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atrocitarian, Ref1
Atrocity Exhibition, The (Ballard), Ref1
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Auden, W. H.
Maugham and, Ref1
“On the Circuit,” Ref1
“Partition,” Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
“The Platonic Blow,” Ref1
“September 1, 1939,” Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Spender and, Ref1
Upward and, Ref1
Waugh and, Ref1
Augustine, Ref1, Ref2
Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen (Wodehouse), Ref1
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Australia, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Austria, and Hitler, Ref1
Autobiography (Franklin), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
“axis of evil,” Ref1
Ayub Khan, Ref1
“Baa Baa, Black Sheep” (Kipling), Ref1
Baader, Andreas, Ref1
Baader Meinhof, Ref1
Baader Meinhof Complex (movie), Ref1
Baath Party (Baathism), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Babel, Isaac
Red Cavalry, Ref1
Updike and, Ref1
Bachardy, Don, Ref1, Ref2
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Bagram Air Force Base, Ref1
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Baker, Nicholson, Human Smoke, Ref1
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Balderston, Katharine, Ref1
Baldwin, James, Notes of a Native Son, Ref1
Balfour, Arthur, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Balkan wars, Ref1, Ref2
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“Ballad of the Goodly Fere” (Pound), Ref1
Ballard, J. G., Ref1
The Atrocity Exhibition, Ref1
Crash, Ref1, Ref2
“The Drowned Giant,” Ref1
Empire of the Sun, Ref1
“The Last World of Mr. Goddard,” Ref1
Miracles of Life, Ref1
“banana republic,” Ref1
Bangladesh, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Ban Ki-moon, Ref1
banking crisis of 2008, Ref1
Baraheni, Reza, Ref1
Barbary Wars, Ref1
Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World (Lambert), Ref1
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Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), Ref1, Ref2
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Bate, Walter Jackson, Ref1
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, Ref1
Battle of New Orleans, Ref1
Battle of Trafalgar, Ref1
Battle of Waterloo, Ref1
Baudelaire, Charles, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Bay of Pigs, Ref1, Ref2
Bays, James, Ref1
Beasts and Super-Beasts (Saki), Ref1
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Beevor, Antony, The Fall of Berlin 1945, Ref1
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Beirut, Ref1
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Belloc, Hilaire, Ref1
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Ben Ali, Zine El Abidine, Ref1
Bend Sinister (Nabokov), Ref1
Benedict XVI, Pope, Ref1
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Benjamin Franklin Unmasked (Weinberger), Ref1, Ref2
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Bennett, James C., The Anglosphere Challenge, Ref1
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Beowulf, Ref1
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Berkeley, Humphry, Ref1
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Berlin Wall, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
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Berryman, John, Ref1
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Beschloss, Michael, Crisis Years, Ref1
Bevan, Aneurin, Ref1
Beyond a Boundary (James), Ref1
Bhagavad Gita, Ref1
Bhutto, Benazir, Ref1, Ref2
Bhutto, Shahnawaz, Ref1
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, Ref1
Bible. See King James Bible
bibliomania, Ref1
Biden, Joseph, Ref1
Bigombe, Betty, Ref1
Bilham, Roger, Ref1
Bill of Rights, Ref1
bin Laden, Osama, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8, Ref9, Ref10, Ref11, Ref12
Biotech Week, Ref1
Birth of Our Power (Serge), Ref1
Bismarck, Otto von, Ref1, Ref2
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Black Hawk War, Ref1
Black Jacobins, The (James), Ref1
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (West), Ref1
Black Mischief (Waugh), Ref1, Ref2
Black Panthers, Ref1
Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, Ref1
Blair, Cherie, Ref1
Blair, Tony, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5
Blake, William, Ref1
“Little Boy Lost,” Ref1
Blanket of the Dark, The (Buchan), Ref1
blasphemy, Ref1
BLAST (magazine), Ref1, Ref2
Bleak House (Dickens), Ref1, Ref2
Bloom, Allan, Ref1, Ref2
blowjobs, Ref1
Bloy, Leon, Ref1
Blum, Léon, Ref1, Ref2
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Blunt, Anthony, Ref1
boarding schools, English, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
bodily integrity, and Jefferson, Ref1, Ref2
Boer War, Ref1
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Boleyn, Anne, Ref1
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount, Ref1
Bolívar, Simón, Ref1
Bolivarian Movement, Ref1
Böll, Heinrich, Ref1
Bolshevik Revolution. See Russian Revolution
Bolt, Robert, Ref1
Bolten, Josh, Ref1
Bonifacius (Mather), Ref1
Bonnot Gang, Ref1
Book of Daniel, Ref1
Book of Job, Ref1
Book of Mormon, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3
Books Do Furnish a Room (Powell), Ref1
bookshelf space, Ref1
Booth, John Wilkes, Ref1, Ref2
Borges, Jorge Luis, Ref1, Ref2
Bosnia, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6
Boswell, James, Ref1, Ref2
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Bourguiba, Habib, Ref1
Bouvard and Pecuchet (Flaubert), Ref1
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Boxer, Mark, Ref1
“Boys’ Weeklies” (Orwell), Ref1, Ref2
Bradlee, Ben, Ref1
Brandt, Willy, Ref1
Brecht, Bertolt
“A Worker Reads History,” Ref1
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Ref1
Breton, André, Ref1
Brick Lane (Ali), Ref1
Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
Bridge on the Drina, The (Andric), Ref1
Bright Lights, Big City (MacInerney), Ref1
Brighton Rock (Greene), Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
Brinkley, Douglas, Ref1
British Blackshirts, Ref1
British Communist Party, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4
British Constitution, Ref1
British Foreign Office, Ref1
British fox, Ref1
British Labour Party, Ref1, Ref2, Ref3, Ref4, Ref5, Ref6, Ref7, Ref8
British Mandate, Ref1
British Union of Fascists, Ref1
Broad, William J., Ref1, Ref2
Brodsky, Joseph, Ref1
Brooke, Rupert, Ref1
Brookings Institution, Ref1
Brooklyn Bridge, Ref1
Brooks, Albert, Ref1