Bellow, Bernstein, Bouvier, Burma

 

Recently the idea came to me that you can learn some stuff and recognize some patterns and remember some forgotten history, just by reading in the Index at the back of a history book or biography.

Reading a book's index kind of sounds like reading the phone book--not high on our list of Things To Do.  But if you read part of an index for a minute, you see there is value in it.

The day I thought of that, I typed in this blog a post which was an excerpt of the index at the back of All The President's Men, by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward.  When I finished typing, I had an additional perspective that I didn't have before I started.

So--now, checked Indexes of three other books on Amazon.

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Mrs. Kennedy

by Barbara Leaming

[Index excerpt]

Bellow, Saul

Ben Bella, Ahmed

Berlin

Berlin, Isaiah

Berlin, Mrs Isaiah

Bermuda

Bermuda Conference

Bernstein, Leonard

Beyond the Fringe (theatrical show)

Billings, Kirk LeMoyne ('Lem')

    in Hyannis Port

    Indira Ghandi and

    at dinner-dance

    and JFK's birthday party

    on holiday with JFK 

    to accompany JFK to Virginia

Bissell, Richard

Blanch, Lesley, The Sabres of Paradise

Black, Eugene

Blough, Roger

Bohlen, Charles

Bolton, Oliver

Boothby, Diana (née Cavendish)

Boothby, Robert

Boudin, Stéphane

Bourguiba, Habib

Bouvier, Jack (father)

    marital difficulties

    nature of

    and Jackie's childhood development

Bouvier, Janet see Auchincloss, Janet

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How Did We Get Here?

    from Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump

by Robert Dallek

[index excerpt]

Batista, Fulgencio

Bay of Pigs invasion

Begin, Menachem

Belgium

Berlin, partitioning of

Berlin blockade

Bernstein, Carl

Biden, Joe

big-stick diplomacy

Birmingham, Alabama

Blackmun, Harry

Borah, William

Bork, Robert

Bradley, Tom

Brady, Jim

Brands, H.W.

Brezhnev, Leonid

Brown, Edmund G. "Pat"

Brown v. Board of Education

Bryan, William Jennings

Buchanan, James

Bull Moose Party

Bunch, Ralph

Bundy, McGeorge

Bureau of Corporations

Buren, Martin Van

Burma

Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama

Bush, George H.W.

Bush, George W.

Butterfield, Alexander

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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

[index excerpt]

Bardia

Barmen

"barons' cabinet"

Barth, Karl

Baruch, Bernard

Basel

Bastogne

Batum

Bavaria

Bavaria, Kingdom of

"Bavarian Joe"

Bavarian People's Party

Bavarian "People's State"

Bayerlein, Gen. Fritz

Bayreuth

BBC

"Beast of Belsen" see Kramer, Josef

Bechstein, Carl

Bechstein, Helene

Beck, Col. Józef

Beck, Gen. Ludwig

    opposes Hitler's military plans

    resigns as Gen. Staff Chief

    in anti-Hitler conspiracy

    named head of First Army

    July 1944 bomb plot

    death

Becker, Dr. 

Beer Hall Putsch

Beethoven, Ludwig von

Beigbeder y Atienza, Col. Juan

Belgian Army

Belgian government in exile

Belgium

    German plans for invasion of

    invasion and battle of

    king surrenders

    German occupation

    liberation

Belgrade...

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