right to choose, 79–80
Riordan, William, 234
Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy, The, 156
Rivers, Dorothy, 241
Rivers, Eugene, 19
Robards, Rachel Donelson, 49–50
Robert “Red Bone,” 236–37
Roberts, John, 257
Roberts, Virginia, 249
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, 186–87
Rockwell, Norman, 243
Rodham, Hugh, 37, 239
Rodham, Tony, 240
Romney, Mitt, 262
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR), 13, 120, 133–36, 167, 255
Roosevelt, Theodore (“Teddy”), 110–11, 129
Roper, Moses, 203
Rosatom, 246
Rosovsky, Henry, 208
Ross, Edward A., 156
Ross, John, 52–55, 62–63
Rowan, Carl, 63
Rudin, Ernst, 155–56
Rules for Radicals, 173, 184
rural paternalism, 19
Russell, Richard, 139, 142
S
Safire, William, 2
Salida Capital, 245–46
Salvation Army, 32
Sanders, Bernie, 4, 38, 45, 145, 194–97, 204
Sanford, Mark, 209
Sanger, Margaret, 12, 115–16, 123–24, 126–29, 130, 132, 144, 155–59, 161
Saudi Arabia, 244, 246
Scalawags, 106
Schecter, Alan, 172
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang, 162–63
Schlesinger, Arthur, 43, 48
Schweizer, Peter, 27, 242, 244, 246
Scott, Robert, 172
“second Bill of Rights,” 167
Seminole tribe, 51
Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, 135
serfdom, 22, 97, 252
Sevier, John, 50
Seward, William H., 87
Shafer, Byron, 140
Sharpton, Al, 188
Shaw, George Bernard, 160
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 104–5
Sherman’s Directive 15, 104
Sholto gang, 176
Sixth International Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, 128
60 Minutes, 213
Slate, 152
Slave Narrative Project, 203
slavery
abolition of, 93, 101–2
Abraham Lincoln and, 81–83, 87, 259
Civil War and, 68, 254
Democrats and, 10–12, 15, 18–19, 22, 66–67, 69, 78–81, 84–88, 97, 114, 117, 122, 125–26, 131, 198, 201, 230, 254–55
Founders and, 70–73, 253
Hillary Clinton and, 165, 252
historians of, 68
justification of, 73–76, 122
Ku Klux Klan and, 95
Mary Boykin Chestnut and, 200
as “positive good,” 10, 67, 76–78, 80, 96
progressives and, 42
Republicans and, 9–11, 28, 91
slave states, 85–86
slave trade, 72
Smith, Adam, 160
Smith, Howard, 15
social Darwinism, 12, 129–30, 132, 156, 158–60
socialism, 76, 148–49, 153, 160, 162
socialists, 149, 151
social justice, 6–7, 21–22, 28, 93, 95, 102, 113–14, 116–17, 138, 173, 176, 182, 190, 202, 224, 231
Social Security, 137
Society of Pale Faces, 106
Society of St. Tammany, 232
South, the, 8, 10, 12, 16–17, 54–55, 57, 59, 68–69, 72–78, 83–85, 91, 95–100, 104–13, 126, 131–33, 135–36, 140, 172, 174, 230, 253–55
Southern strategy, 143
Sowell, Thomas, 63
Spencer, Herbert, 129, 160
Spielberg, Steven, 258
Stalin, Joseph, 153, 163
Stampp, Kenneth, 68, 103
state of nature, 101
state-run capitalism, 148
Steinem, Gloria, 214–15
Stennis, John, 142
Stevens, Christopher J., 226, 228
Stevens, Thaddeus, 107
Stewart, Jon, 257
St. Louis, 20, 178
Stoddard, Lothrop, 156
Stoneman, Austin, 107
Sumner, Charles, 85, 102
Sumner, William Graham, 160
“survival of the fittest,” 129, 159–60
Syria, 229–30, 246
Syrian Free rebels, 230
T
Talmadge, Herman, 142
Tammany Hall, 27, 129, 230–36
Taney, Roger, 69
Task Force on National Health Care Reform, 1
Taylor, Thomas Alfred, 204–5
Teapot Dome scandal, 230
technological capitalism, 261
Telfer, Ian, 245
Tennessee River, 54, 137
Tennessee River Bank, 55
Thirteenth Amendment, 11, 93, 101, 255
Thomas, Clarence, 63, 211
Thomases, Susan, 207
Three New Deals, 163
Thurmond, Strom, 117, 142
Tilden, Samuel, 234
Tillman, Ben, 95, 111
totalitarianism, 163–64, 166
Townsend, John, 98
Trail of Tears, 63–64
Travelgate, 2, 238
Treaty of New Echota, 63
Trotter, Monroe, 113
Truman, Bess, 118
Truman, Harry, 117–18, 120, 231
Trump, Donald, 7–9, 152, 154, 197, 251, 164
Truth, Sojourner, 69
Tubman, Harriet, 42, 69
Tugwell, Rexford, 167
Tulane University, 185
Tuskegee Project, 116
TVA Act, 136
Tweed, William “Boss,” 27, 232–35
2016: Obama’s America, 23
2011 Housing Expo, 34
Tyson, Don, 237
Tyson, John, 240
Tyson Foods, 236, 240
U
USAID, 34–35, 247
Uncle Bharat, 124–26
Uncle Toms, 63, 91
Underground Railroad, 42, 69
United Arab Emirates, 244
United Nations Conference on Women, 1995, 193
United Shows of America, 239
upward mobility, 82–83, 140, 263
uranium, 28, 245–46
urban paternalism, 19
U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment, 245
useless people, 19, 115–44
U.S. State Department, 3, 33, 35, 59, 225–29, 244, 246, 248
U.S. Supreme Court, 12, 16, 61, 63, 67, 70, 77–78, 92, 108, 111–12, 117, 130, 135–36, 142, 154, 211, 233, 256, 264
V
Van Buren, Martin, 63
Vardaman, James, 110, 113
VCS Mining, 37
Veblen, Thorstein, 160
Vietnam War, 89, 185
Vignali, Carlos, 239
Volkischer Beobachter, 151
Voting Rights Act, 9, 14, 92–93, 102, 141, 255
W
Wade, Christopher, 241
Wallace, George, 112, 143–44
Wall Street, 146, 188
Wall Street Journal, the, 3
Walmart, 248
War of 1812, 49, 53
war on women, 221, 262
Warren, Elizabeth, 7–8
Washington, Booker T., 107, 110, 129
Washington, George, 41, 47, 70, 253
Washington Free Beacon, 205
Washington Post, 217, 247
Watkins, David, 238
Watson, Tom, 110
Weikart, Richard, 159
Weiss, David, 34
welfare, 20, 138, 162, 186
welfare reform, 20, 62
Well, H. G., 160, 162
Wellesley College, 89–90, 172
Wells, Ida B., 113
Wellstone, Eileen, 218
wes
tward expansion, 47
“What the Black Man Wants,” 122
Whig Party, 60, 73
White, Bill, 228
White, Edward, 108
White Brotherhood, 106
White House, 118, 134, 172, 196–97, 214, 217, 219, 235–44, 247, 249, 266
white middle class, 182–83
white supremacy, 79, 96–97, 99, 100, 111–12, 114, 133, 140, 198, 230
Whitewater, 235, 241
Whitney, Eli, 72
Wilentz, Sean, 43, 48
Willey, Ed, 210
Willey, Kathleen, 210–13, 221
Williams, Michael, 63
Wilson, Clyde, 76
Wilson, Woodrow, 13, 15, 108, 113, 120–21, 129, 132–34, 138, 144, 168, 255
Winant, Howard, 21
Witness, 120
women’s rights, 193–94, 197, 199, 220, 262
women’s suffrage movement, 14–15
Works Project Administration (WPA), 137
World Bank, 247
World War II, 13, 15, 63, 118, 134, 151–52, 154, 162–63, 256
Wright, Betsey, 213
Y
Yale Law School, 191, 217–18
Z
Zercher, Christy, 210–11
Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
CHAPTER 1: THE HILLARY ENIGMA
CHAPTER 2: THE LAND STEALER
CHAPTER 3: PARTY OF SLAVERY
CHAPTER 4: SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION FOREVER
CHAPTER 5: THE PROBLEM OF USELESS PEOPLE
CHAPTER 6: PROGRESSIVISM ÜBER ALLES
CHAPTER 7: THE EDUCATION OF A MAFIOSA
CHAPTER 8: THE ENABLER
CHAPTER 9: PARTNERS IN CRIME
CHAPTER 10: REPUBLICANS TO THE RESCUE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
INDEX