Synopses & Reviews
Clashes of Wills is a collection of essays that explore the great confrontations of the United States since 1877, looking at eleven areas of controversy that are part of today's news, but whose sources lie in the past.
By focusing on well-known people who represent these issues, the book creates stories that are selective, focused, and coherent, to paint a portrait of the United States in the past century and a half.
Synopsis
Clashes of Wills is a collection of essays that explore the great confrontations of the United States since 1877, looking at eleven areas of controversy that are part of today's news, but whose sources lie in the past.
By focusing on well-known people who represent these issues, the book creates stories that are selective, focused, and coherent, to paint a portrait of the United States in the past century and a half.
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Table of Contents
Preface.
1. I Never Do Wrong Without a Cause.
Geronimo, George Crook, Nelson A. Miles, and the Ownership of America.
2. A Dance of Skeletons Bathed in Human Tears.
George Pullman, Eugene Debs, and the Railway Strike of 1894.
3. Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are.
Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Black Equality.
4. Damn-Dam-Damnation.
John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Environment.
5. The World Must Be Made Safe for Democracy.
Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and America's Place Among Nations.
6. Ill-Housed, Ill-Clad, Ill-Nourished.
Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Welfare State.
7. All the Evil of the Times.
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and the Bomb.
8. No Substitute for Victory.
Harry S Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and the Korean War.
9. What in the Name of God Have We Come To?
Richard M. Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, and the Pentagon Papers.
10. Men Are Not the Enemy.
Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
11. Race Unfortunately Still Matters.
Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, and Affirmative Action.
Conclusion.
General Bibliography.
Index.