| | welfare state, 179, 207, 328, 340, 343 -44, 428-29, 517 |
| | Wendell, Barrett, 353 |
| | West: industrial conditions in, 336 -37; symbolism of, in popular culture, 92 -100, 299, 301 |
| | Western Federation of Miners, 336 |
| | Weyl, Walter: on distributive democracy, 342-44 |
| | Weyrich, Paul: on populism of new right, 505-6 |
| | Wharton, Edith, 281 n. |
| | Whicher, Stephen E.: on Emerson, 549 |
| | Whig party (England), 200 n. |
| | Whig party (U.S.), 176, 187, 203 |
| | White, Theodore H.: on JFK, 469 |
| | White, William Allen: on Kansas, 419 |
| | Whitefield, George, 259 |
| | Whitman, Walt, 280 -81, 282, 349 -50, 352 |
| | Whittier, John Greenleaf, 349 |
| | Wilberforce, William, 181 |
| | Wilder, Thornton, 103 -5 |
| | Wilentz, Sean: on producer ethic, 206 |
| | Wilkins, John, 125 |
| | Williams, Hosea: on blacks in Chicago, 399 ; on power of the press, 397 -98 |
| | Williams, Raymond, 29, 135, 239, 328 ; on Carlyle, 240 -41; on rural economy, 86 |
| | Williams, Roger, 164 |
| | Williams, William Appleman, 26 |
| | Wills, Garry, 470 n.; on Kennedy assassination, 473 |
| | "Will to Believe, The" (James), 289 |
| | Wilson, Clyde: on everyday virtues, 22 |
| | Wilson, Edmund: on Mencken, 361 |
| | Wilson, James, 198 n. |
| | Wilson, Woodrow, 383, 414, 455 |
| | Wine of the Puritans, The (Brooks), 353 |
| | Winesburg, Obio (Anderson), 100 -101 |
| | Winning of the West, The (TR), 98 |
| | Winston, Robert Watson: on North Carolina, 418 |
| | Wirth, Louis, 147 n. |
| | Wirth, Tim, 507 |
| | Wister, Owen, 98 -99 |
| | Wohl, Robert: on generation of 1914, 107 |
| | Wolfe, Thomas, 103 |
| | Wood, Charles F.: on New York State, 4I9-20 |
| | Wood, Clement: on Alabama, 417 -18 |
| | Wood, Gordon, 15, 175 -76, 197 -98 n.; on republican virtue, 174 n. |
| | Wood, Mrs. Henry: on death of children, 9I-92 |
| | Wood, Michael: on nostalgia, 116 -17 |
| | Wood, Neal: on Locke, 198 -99 |
| | Wood, Robert: on school reform in Boston, 499 |
| | Wordsworth, William, 88, 89 -91; on memory, 102 n. |
| | workers' control, 224, 309 -10, 322, 325, 326, 328, 364-65; in Cole, 318 -20, 323 ; in Sorel, 314 -15 |
| | work ethic, 458, 523 |
| | working class, 477 -78, 506, 525 ; composition of, 479 -82; convergence with lower middle class, 483 -86; culture of, 215 -16, 487-88, 492 -96; see also artisans, lower middle class, petty bourgeoisie |
| | working-class authoritarianism, 460 -65, 465-66, 476, 512, 561 -63 |
| | World of Labor, The (Cole), 324, 341 n. |
| | World War I, 69, 75, 76, 100, 107, 112, 113, 149, 224, 330, 347, 360, 369, 412 |
| | World War II, 37, 113, 116, 158, 461, 510 |
| | World We Have Lost, The (Laslett), 164 |
| | Wright, Frances, 188 n. |
| | Wright, Frank Lloyd, 114, 346 |
| | Wright, James D.: on political alienation, 465 |