1Praise
61Setting the stage for World War II
2PREFACE
62Chapter 10 - THE MISUNDERSTOOD TWENTIES
3Chapter 1 - THE COLONIAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN LIBERTY
63Voting for the anti-Wilson
4Suspicion + Dislike = Liberty A formula for freedom
64The truth about the Twenties
5Love thy neighbor? Colonial quarrels give birth to religious freedom
65Chapter 11 - THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL
6PC Myth: The Puritans were racists
66Hoover: A “do nothing” president? If only!
7No, the Puritans didn’t steal Indian lands
67FDR comes to town
8Self-government is non-negotiable
68Let’s help starving people by destroying food!
9Chapter 2 - AMERICA’S CONSERVATIVE REVOLUTION
69The consequences of labor legislation
10Colonial tradition or British innovation?
70The disaster of “public works”
11Fact: The American Revolution was not like the French Revolution
71Not so fast, Court tells FDR
12Chapter 3 - THE CONSTITUTION
72Did World War II lift America out of the Depression?
13Constitution is okay, say states, but we get to bolt just in case...
73The military draft reduces unemployment!
14It’s okay to own a gun
74Chapter 12 - YES, COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS REALLY EXISTED
15Just because it’s not in the Bill of Rights doesn’t mean it’s not a right
75“I have been over into the future—and it works!”
16Whatever the states didn’t let the Feds do was left to the states
76The Soviet experiment: A model for America?
17War powers: Congress wimps out on its responsibility
77Labor unions speak: The merits of the Soviet system
18Chapter 4 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND THE “PRINCIPLES OF ’98”
78Lighten up: It’s all for “the good of the masses of the working people”!
19Providing for the “general welfare”: The roots of big government
79How Stalin starved his own people
20The Republicans versus the Federalists
80Stalin’s show trials genuine, say bootlickers
21Chapter 5 - THE NORTH–SOUTH DIVISION
81Yes, Soviet spies were a problem
22You get Missouri, we get Maine
82Joe McCarthy was a paranoid idiot, right?
23More rhetorical blows
83Chapter 13 - THE APPROACH OF WORLD WAR II
24Keep slavery out of the territories! (to reserve them for whites)
84FDR tries to neutralize neutrality laws
25States fight over plantations in . . . Arizona?
85The imperial presidency takes shape: Did FDR break the law?
26It’s about slavery, but it’s not about slavery
86The end of neutrality
27The Kansas “bloodbath”
87FDR tries to draw Americans into war
28The rise of the Republicans
88Did FDR make war with Japan inevitable?
29Fact: Local Southern judge freed Dred Scott
89Chapter 14 - WORLD WAR II: CONSEQUENCES AND AFTERMATH
30Lunatic on the loose: Murderer John Brown returns to the scene
90FDR and Uncle Joe—How friendly was FDR toward Stalin?
31Chapter 6 - THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
91American presidents send a million Russians back to Stalin
32Was there an American civil war?
92An atrocity on American soil: Russians drugged and returned home
33The states had the right to secede
93Was the Marshall Plan a great success or another failed giveaway program?
34Was the war fought to free the slaves?
94Truman disregards the Constitution
35Reality check: Lincoln’s views on race
95Chapter 15 - CIVIL RIGHTS
36Why did the soldiers fight? The soldiers speak . . .
96Instead of law, sociology
37The rise of total war
97From race neutrality to race obsession
38Chapter 7 - RECONSTRUCTION
98Let’s force those kids together—even if they have to be bused two hours a day!
39Lincoln, Johnson, and presidential Reconstruction
99The Kansas City fiasco
40The South’s black codes
100The Civil Rights Act of 1964
41The Fourteenth Amendment and states’ rights
101Chapter 16 - JFK AND LBJ
42The first impeachment of a president
102Who was the real John F. Kennedy?
43Chapter 8 - HOW BIG BUSINESS MADE AMERICANS BETTER OFF
103Lyndon Johnson: A legacy of failure
44How government promoted waste and corruption in railroad construction
104How ’60s liberalism discouraged all the right things and encouraged all the ...
45How “fairness” crippled American farmers
105Lack of jobs doesn’t explain large welfare rolls
46The “wicked” Rockefeller
106The Great Society and the Vietnam tragedy
47Andrew Carnegie and the American standard of living
107Chapter 17 - THE DECADE OF GREED?
48Herbert Dow: Forgotten American hero
108How was Reagan different?
49Antitrust idiocy: Should antitrust laws be repealed?
109Charitable giving during the “Decade of Greed”
50Chapter 9 - WORLD WAR I
110The truth about Michael Milken, the man the media loved to hate
51Propaganda in wartime? It can’t be!
111The myth of budget cuts
52Starving civilians is against the law
112The tax bite
53The Germans strike back
113Chapter 18 - CLINTON
54The sinking of the Lusitania
114Clinton, a “centrist”?
55The Sussex pledge
115“Only unqualified applicants may apply”
56The Germans make one last push
116CNN foreign policy
57Why did Wilson favor war?
117Balkan Misadventures: How Clinton abused power, abetted Islamists, lied, and ...
58The peace conference: The disaster Wilson pretended not to notice
118“The era of big government is over”—say what?
59Opponents say we can’t police the world!
119BIBLIOGRAPHY
60“Bizarre” and “wild-eyed”: The Wilsonian program
120INDEX
