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Abadi, Haider al-, 201
Abedin, Huma, 242, 338–39
Abolitionism, 9
Abortion, 14, 139, 238, 372
Abrams, Teddy, 191
Academy Awards, 15, 105
Access Hollywood tape, 332–34
Achieving Our Country (Rorty), 325–27
Adams, Henry, 5n
Adams, James Truslow, 316
Adelson, Sheldon, 138
Advertising, 79, 309–12
Affirmative action, 407–8, 409
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 28, 49, 50, 52–54, 53n, 181, 217, 235, 355n, 360
Afghanistan, 16, 104, 122, 163, 177, 192, 201, 275, 297, 334, 368, 372, 388
Afghan refugees, 330–31
African-American voters, 105, 241, 242, 293
AIG, 277
Ailes, Roger, 207, 223–26, 236, 240, 297
Aleppo, 142, 297, 298, 300, 302, 329, 372, 390, 392
Alexander, Michelle, 260
Ali, Muhammad, 178, 183, 197–99
Alt-right, 1, 2, 379, 379n, 408
Ambassadors, The (James), 309–11
American Amnesia (Hacker and Pierson), 347, 362–63
American Crossroads, 136–37
American Dream, 81, 315–25
American Exceptionalism, 143–56
American Gothic (Wood), 63, 63
American imperialism, 148–49
American political phonies, 107–19
American reinventions, 6–11
American schizophrenia, 1, 6, 401
Angelou, Maya, 122
Apprentice, The (TV show), 59, 313–14
Arbella, 145, 146
Arbus, Diane, 188
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), 63
Aristotle, 245–46
Arpaio, Joe, 41, 336, 371
Artan, Abdul Razak Ali, 375
Art of the Deal, The (Trump), 314n
AR-15 style rifles, 185–86, 202, 337, 391
Ask, the, 54–55
Assange, Julian, 330, 336
Atwater, Lee, 131–32, 135–36
Audacity of Hope, The (Obama), 31–32, 33
Austrian School, 96
Authorization to Use Military Force (AUMF), 163–65, 172–73
Awful Purdies, The, 78–79, 96
Ayotte, Kelly, 332
Babbitt, Bruce, 255
Bachmann, Michele, 220
Bagram Air Base, 372
Baio, Scott, 206
Baldwin, James, 47–48, 85, 411, 413
Bannon, Steve, 240, 242, 372–73, 374, 378–79
Barbie dolls, 16
Barrasso, John, 222–23
Baseball, 143–45, 155–56
“Basket of deplorables,” 298
Baton Rouge shootings, 202, 204, 206, 209, 210, 213
Battle of Aleppo, 142, 297, 298, 300, 302, 329, 372, 390, 392
Battle of Chickamauga, 167–68
Battle of Fallujah, 161, 165, 181
Battle of Mosul, 204, 335–37, 338, 369
Battle of Shiloh, 168–69, 173
Beck, Charlie, 203
Beck, Glenn, 16, 225–26
Benenson, Joel, 282
Benghazi, 181–82, 227, 240
Berlin, Isaiah, 353n
Berrigan, Daniel, 157
Biden, Joe, 162, 178, 205
Bierce, Ambrose, 163, 167–69, 173–74
Big Ag, 21–22, 42
Big Con, The (Maurer), 118
Bin Laden, Osama, 45, 204
Birmingham church bombing, 128–29
Birtherism, 138, 299–300, 401–3, 401n, 403n
Black Lives Matter, 159, 203, 204, 209, 210, 227, 402, 403, 410, 411
Blagojevich, Rod, 32
Blair, Tony, 270
Bland, Sandra, 400
Blankfein, Lloyd, 388
Blue Cut Fire, 241
Blunt, Roy, 337
Boehner, John, 46n, 137–38
Bonus Marchers, 7, 346
Booker, Cory, 246
Border wall. See Mexican border wall
Bornstein, Harold, 299
Bouhlel, Mohamed Lahouaiej, 205, 206
Bourdieu, Pierre, 267n
Bowie, David, 14
Boy Scouts, 57, 73
Brammer, Billy Lee, 110n
“Brand,” 109–10
Brandeis, Louis, 322, 324
Branstad, Terry, 41
Bratton, William, 203
Brazile, Donna, 249, 251, 252, 337, 368
Brennan, John, 298
Brexit, 140, 177, 179, 180, 181–82
Bribery, 32
Bridgegate, 369
Brock, David, 289–90
Brody, Ken, 275
Brooklyn Dodgers, 139
Brooks, David, 126
Brown, David, 205
Brown, Jerry, 260
Brown, Michael, 44, 400
Brown v. Board of Education, 128
Bruner, Mary Lou, 122
Brussels Airport, 139
Buchanan, James, 7, 355
Buchanan, Pat, 220
Buckley, William F., 39
Budget deficits, 270–71, 341
Bundy, Ammon, 14, 16, 338
Burnham, Walter Dean, 247, 266
Burns, Mark, 220–21
Burr, Richard, 369
Burrage, Olen, 135
Burt, Patrick, 296
Bush, Billy, 332
Bush, George H. W., 62n, 159, 207, 253, 267, 271, 272
Bush, George W., 339, 406
American Exceptionalism and, 147, 153
AUMF and, 163–64
election of 2016 and, 100, 102, 206, 238
financial crisis and, 277
September 11 attacks, 102, 193
on Ted Cruz, 46n
Bush, John Ellis “Jeb,” 61–62, 100, 101, 103, 125, 387–88
Bush, Vannevar, 362
Butler, Smedley, 148–49
California Democratic Primary of 2016, 178
Cameron, David, 139
Campbell, John, 122
Capitalism, 81, 347–50, 357
Carlin, George, 319
Carlson, Gretchen, 207, 297
Carnegie, Andrew, 317
Caro, Robert, 342–44, 348
Carpenter, John, 349
Carson, Ben, 16, 56–57, 60–61, 122
Carter, Jimmy, 50, 253, 271
Castile, Philando, 202–3, 210, 400, 402
Castro, Fidel, 135, 375
Castro, Julián, 42n
Cegielski, Stephanie, 314–15
Celebrity Apprentice (TV show), 59, 313–14
Central Park Five, 331–32
Chambers, Whittaker, 115
Chaney, James, 134–36
Charlemagne, 245
Charlie Hebdo, 13–14, 387
Cheney, Dick, 118, 153, 171, 299
Chesnut, Mary Boykin, 411–12
Chess, Phil, 336
Chicago Cubs, 122, 368
Chicago school of economics, 28, 96
Children’s Health Insurance Program, 269
Chisholm, Shirley, 247–48
Christian pitch, 111–12, 113
Christian right, 47, 48, 55–56, 147, 203–4
Christie, Chris, 99, 101, 104, 230, 369, 372
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 106, 122, 306
Cincinnati Zoo, 161
Citibank, 15, 40
Citizens United v. FEC, 35, 92, 93, 320
“City upon a hill,” 145, 146–47
Civility, loss of, 160, 369
Civil rights, 8, 127–35, 409
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 129, 134
Civil War, 9, 167–69, 172, 173
Clapper, James, 101
Clarke, David, Jr., 335
Clarkson, Kelly, 36
Class warfare, 253, 258
Clean Water Act, 181
Cleveland, James, 84
Cleveland Convention Center, 209–36
Climate change, 87, 141, 158, 160, 239, 240, 297, 301, 330, 373, 387
Clinton, Bill
appearance of, 24–25
election of 1992, 29, 258–60, 265–68, 268n, 272, 275–76, 291
election of 1996, 272–73
election of 2016 and, 24–27, 160, 208, 286–87, 332
New Orleans Declaration, 256–58
post-presidency and Wall Street, 30–33
presidency of, 268–74, 291
race-baiting of, 259–61
at Stone Mountain, 259–60, 261
Clinton, Chelsea, 32
Clinton, Hillary
Bill’s presidency and, 268–70
credibility problem of, 249–51
election of 2008, 35–36, 275–76
election of 2016, 15, 100, 101, 103, 104, 246–52, 285–89
Democratic National Convention, 246, 247–49, 252, 286–88
Iowa Caucuses, 19–28, 35–36, 62–64, 99
March, 121, 123, 125, 126
April, 140, 142
May, 157–62
June, 177–82
July, 201–8
August, 237–43
September, 297–300, 302–3
October, 329–39
November, 367–76
email controversy, 15, 140, 160, 201–2, 208, 241, 338–39, 339, 368, 370, 372
“likability” problem of, 33
New York Senate career of, 274–75, 277–78, 280
Wall Street speeches, 29–35, 100, 142, 279–84, 320
Clinton Foundation, 30, 284
Clyburn, James, 299–300
Coalition for a Democratic Majority, 255
Cohen, Leonard, 370
Cohn, Gary D., 389–90
Cohn, Roy, 40, 115, 386
Col Ballroom (Davenport, Iowa), 21, 22–28, 35–36
Cold War, 306
Coles, Robert, 264n
Collins, Susan, 332
Comey, James, 140, 201–2, 338–39, 368, 370, 372
Concealed carry, 13, 242
Conroy, Pat, 123
Constitution, U.S., 37, 154, 155, 383
Conway, Kellyanne, 240, 336, 390
Coolidge, Calvin, 125
Cooper, Anderson, 33–34, 281, 403n
Corker, Bob, 202
Cornyn, John, 46n, 124, 202, 205
Cotton, Tom, 177
Coulter, Ann, 296, 373
Cox, Chris, 196
Cox, Jo, 180
Criminal justice reform, 100, 288
Crippled America (Trump), 60
Cromwell, William Nelson, 306
Cronkite, Walter, 134
Crow, Ken, 218
Crow, Ken, 217
Crow, Trammell, 61
Crownover, Myra, 123
Crutcher, Terence, 301
Cruz, Heidi, 40, 44–46, 126, 231
Cruz, Rafael, 44, 158
Cruz, Ted
Canadian birth of, 37–38
election of 2016, 165, 302, 369
Iowa Caucuses, 37–57
January, 15–16
February, 99–104
March, 123–26
April, 139–42
May, 158, 159
June, 179
July, 206–7, 231
Texas Senate campaign of 2012, 15, 40
Cuba, 125, 295, 334–35, 375, 392
Cuban, Mark, 159, 160, 180
Cummings, Elijah, 217
Cunningham, Duke, 32
Cunningham, Tricia, 216–17
Curiel, Gonzalo, 178
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), 181
Dakota Access Pipeline, 298, 338
Dalio, Ray, 357, 358n
Dallas (TV show), 57–58
Dallas Police Department, 180
Danner, Mark, 325–26
D’Antonio, Michael, 314n
“Dark money,” 91–92, 102–3
Davenport, Iowa, 20–3, 35–36
Davidson, Adam, 96
Davison, Elige, 398
De Blasio, Bill, 371–72
Declaration of Independence, 6, 151, 152, 153, 246, 316, 324
DeLay, Tom, 381
Delligatti, Jim, 387
Democracy in Chains (MacLean), 355, 358–59, 361
Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), 255–57, 274–75, 292
Democratic National Convention (1936), 7–8
Democratic National Convention (1948), 127–28
Democratic National Convention (2016), 208, 237, 246–52, 286–87
Democratic Party, 245–94
Dempsey, Jim, 364
Dent, Harry, Sr., 132
Deregulation, 266, 276, 307, 350–51, 361–62
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 16
Didion, Joan, 260–61, 289
Dobson, James, 181
Dole, Bob, 46n, 273n
Dowd, Maureen, 123
Draper, Tim, 363
Dukakis, Michael, 253
Duke, David, 105, 296, 413
Dulles, Allen, 306–7
Dulles, John, 306–7
Dune Capital Management, 389
Dunham, Lena, 15
Durbin, Dick, 321
Duterte, Rodrigo, 241, 388
Dylan, Bob, 334
Eastland, James, 134
Eastwood, Clint, 195
EgyptAir Flight 804, 160
Eisenhower, Dwight, 117, 306, 353–54, 354n
Elizabeth II of England, 141, 393
Emancipation Proclamation, 4–5, 6–7, 399
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), 49, 196
Era of Trump, 377–79, 385–86
Erdoğan, Recep, 123, 205–6
Erickson, Erick, 159
Ernst, Joni, 202
Ethos, 245–46, 249, 263, 294
European migrant crisis, 17, 125, 140, 240, 330–31, 368–69
Evangelical Christians, 47, 48, 51, 55–56, 147, 203–4
Evolution, 161, 357
Fair Deal, 116
“Fake news,” 374–75, 391
Fallin, Mary, 223, 333
Fallon, Brian, 282
Fallon, Jimmy, 299
Fallujah, 161, 165, 181
Falwell, Jerry, Jr., 41, 103
Family and Medical Leave Act, 269
Fantasy Industrial Complex (FIC), 312–13, 327–28
FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army), 302, 330
Farenthold, Blake, 334
Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), 174–75
Farm Relief Act of 1933, 351
Faulkner, William, 412
Fear, 118, 187–88, 189
Feinstein, Dianne, 339
Festival of Faiths, 191–93
Fields, Michelle, 126
Financial crisis of 2007–2008, 29, 30, 93, 276, 277–78, 280, 321, 325, 341
Financial Services Modernization Act, 276
Finicum, LaVoy, 16
Fink, Richard Harold, 255
Fiorina, Carly, 48, 93, 99, 101, 142
Fisher, Carrie, 392, 393
Flint water crisis, 14, 15, 16, 140, 141, 156, 177, 303, 330
Flowers, Gennifer, 259
Flynn, Michael G., 391
Flynn, Michael T., 204, 227, 374, 391
“Flynn effect,” 80–81
Food stamps, 265–66, 273n
Forbes, Steve, 123
Forbes 400, 14, 93
Foster, Mark, 82
Foster, Rob, 96
Fountain, Ben E., Jr., 80–81
Fox News, 224–26, 236, 297
France, Brian, 124
Francis, Pope, 102, 103, 125, 140, 328n, 391
Freedom-profits-plunder equation, 4–6, 316, 319–20, 413
Freedom Summer, 134
Freedom to Farm Act, 273
Free market, 28, 254, 323, 347–50, 356–57
French, David A., 177
Friedman, Milton, 28, 254
From, Al, 255, 257, 269, 288, 292
Fuentes, Carlos, 174
Fuller, Deborah, 190n
Garland, Merrick, 125–26
Garner, Eric, 414
Garn-St. Germain Act, 351
George Washington Bridge lane closure scandal, 369
Gettysburg Address, 151, 152
GI Bill, 317, 364
Giffords, Gabby, 379
Gilded Age, 347, 359, 361
Gingrich, Newt, 161, 205, 231, 335, 338, 381–82
Ginsberg, Allen, 79, 307
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 205, 410–11
Girls (TV show), 15
Giuliani, Rudolph, 207, 227, 240, 302, 335, 371
“Glandular technique,” 110
Glass-Steagall Act, 276, 279, 288, 350, 351, 362
Glenn, John, 389
Globalization, 271
Global warming. See Climate change
Globe Life Park, 144–45, 155–56
Goering, Hermann, 196–97
Goldman Sachs, 15, 30, 40, 46, 271, 275, 280–81, 282, 308, 388–89, 390
Goldstein, Baruch, 45
Goldwater, Barry, 50, 51, 51n, 129–31, 133, 134, 137
“Goldwater and Pseudo-Conservative Politics” (Hofstadter), 50–51
Goodman, Andrew, 134–36
Gore, Thomas, 145
Gould, Jay, 4–5
Graham, Billy, 116
Graham, Lindsey, 14, 46n, 157, 369
Grant, Cary, 312
Great Barrier Reef, 387
Great Depression, 7, 341–47, 348, 350, 352–53
Great Recession of 2008, 5, 351
Green, Ja’Mal, 203
Greenberg, Stanley, 139, 261–66, 292
Greene, Jeff, 360
Greenspan, Alan, 28, 254, 271, 356–57, 356–57n
Greider, William, 279
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, 104
Guccifer 2.0, 239, 331, 390
Guevara, Cinderela, 102
Gulbis, Natalie, 206
Gulen, Fethullah, 206
Gulf War syndrome, 269
Gun control, 180, 391–92
Gun culture, 179, 183–97
Gunther, John, 353n
Guzmán, Joaquín “El Chapo,” 13, 15
Hacker, Jacob, 347, 362–63
Hagman, Larry, 58–59
Hamilton (musical), 178
Hannity, Sean, 240
“Happiness,” 6, 6n, 316
Harper, F. A. “Baldy,” 355n
Harry, Duke of Sussex, 370
Hastert, Dennis, 140, 180–81
Hayden, Carla D., 299
Hellerman, Fred, 296
Hemingway, Ernest, 174–75
Heraclitus, 380
“High negatives,” 113–14
Hispanic voters, 25, 42, 42n, 139, 287, 369
Hiss, Alger, 115
Hitler, Adolf, 60, 327, 352–53
Hofer, Norbert, 388
Hofstadter, Richard, 50–51, 188, 196–97
Hollande, François, 205
Holmes, Josh, 14
Holt, Lester, 302
Hoover, Herbert, 274, 344–45, 346, 384
Hoover, J. Edgar, 114
Horatio Alger myth, 317
Horton, Willie, 62n
Hubbard, Iowa, 36–37, 41–42
Humphrey, Hubert, 253–54
Hurricane Matthew, 330, 333, 370
Hussein, Saddam, 68, 165, 389
Hyena theory of capitalism, 357, 359, 361
Identity politics, 3–5, 371
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, 121
Immigration, 42, 42n, 51, 242, 295, 296. See also Mexican border wall
Indiana Primaries of 2016, 158
Inequality, 87–94, 121–22, 272, 278–79, 284–85, 323–24, 347–48
Infrastructure, 96, 166, 351, 354, 374
Iowa Caucuses of 2016, 19–97
Bernie Sanders, 77–96
Donald Trump, 57–62, 64–77
Hillary Clinton, 19–28, 35–36, 62–64
poll results, 99–100
Ted Cruz, 37–57
Iran ballistic missiles test launch, 124
Iran naval incident, 14
Iran sanctions, 14–15
Iraq, 16, 68, 123, 157, 159–60, 163–65, 201, 368
AUMF and, 163–65, 172
Battle of Fallujah, 161, 165, 181
Battle of Mosul, 165, 204, 335–37, 338, 369
ISIS, 15, 16, 43, 165, 166, 170, 210–11, 238
February, 101, 103–4, 105
March, 123, 125–26
May, 159–60, 161–62
June, 179, 181–82
July, 201, 202, 206
September, 295, 297, 300
October, 335, 336
November, 369
December, 392
Israel, 49, 124, 202
Israeli settlements, 330, 393
Israel wall, 71, 71n
Istanbul bombing of 2016, 14
Jackson, Andrew, 141
Jackson, Frank, 209
Jackson, Janet, 336
Jackson, Jesse, 257, 260, 265n, 290
James, Henry, 309–11
James, Joshua, 101
James, LeBron, 211–12
Jefferson, Thomas, 6, 9, 10, 316
Jenkins, Coline, 370
Johnson, Boris, 140
Johnson, Gary, 297, 369
Johnson, Lyndon, 112–13, 122, 129, 134–35, 342
Johnson, Micah, 203, 206
Johnson, Robert, 127, 136–37
Jones, Alex, 216, 218, 219, 232
Jones, Ben, 259n
Jones, Rakeem, 124
Joplin, Braden, 16
Jospin, Lionel, 270n
Kaepernick, Colin, 296–97
Kahn, Alfred, 254
Kaine, Tim, 207, 238, 246, 331
Kander, Jason, 337
Kardashian, Kim, 330
Kasich, John, 21
February, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105
March, 123, 125
April, 139, 140, 141
May, 157, 158–59
July, 212, 214
Kelly, Megyn, 16, 67–68, 338
Kennedy, Anthony, 102
Kennedy, John F., 122, 128, 146–47, 158, 189
Kennedy, Robert F., 90, 263, 264n
Kerry, John, 68, 205–6, 333
Keynesians, 96
Keys, Alicia, 100
Khan, Khizr, 208, 237
Khan, Sadiq, 159
Kim Jong Un, 295
Kind, Ron, 288
King, John, 299
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 25, 90, 90n, 259, 264n, 320n
King, Peter, 390
King, Steve, 41–44, 42n, 46
King, Tyre, 300
Kingdom of Fear (Thompson), 189–90
King Philip’s War, 148
Kinkade, Thomas, 47, 47n
Kinsey, Charles, 207
Klobuchar, Amy, 373
Knight, Bobby, 157
Koch, Charles, 142, 255, 320, 352, 355–56, 355n
Koch, David, 352
Koch, Fred, 352, 353–54
Kristof, Nicholas, 21n
Kristol, William, 123, 159, 165, 177
Ku Klux Klan, 105, 135, 259, 296, 370, 399
Kushner, Charles, 372
Kushner, Jared, 372, 386, 390
Lackland Air Force Base, 66
Laissez-faire capitalism, 347–51, 357
LaPierre, Wayne, 195–96
Larson, Jeff, 213, 215
Lee, Harper, 103
Lee, Mike, 221
Lee, Robert E., 110, 259
LePage, Paul, 295–96
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, 105
Letterman, David, 189
Lewandowski, Corey, 126, 180
Lewinsky, Monica, 160
Libya, 103–4, 161, 163
Limbaugh, Rush, 125, 161, 203, 225
Lincoln, Abraham, 9, 143, 359n
Exceptionalism gospel, 149–53, 155
Liston, Sonny, 197
Lizza, Ryan, 56
Lochte, Ryan, 240–41
Logos, 245–46, 294
Long, Gavin, 206, 241
Loomis, Stephen, 212
Luttrell, Marcus, 206
MacArthur, Douglas, 170
McCain, John, 46n, 62n, 123, 170, 178, 217, 301, 332, 369
McCarthy, Joseph, 113–18
McCaul, Mike, 227
McChrystal, Stanley, 159, 165
McClure, Tori Murden, 191–92
McConnell, Mitch, 14, 102, 138, 225, 230, 382–84
McCoy, Neal, 144–45
McCrory, Pat, 158–59, 389
McDonald’s, 334, 387
McGovern, George, 94
McGraw, John, 124–25
McIlvenna, Noeleen, 396n
MacLean, Nancy, 355, 358–59, 361
McMullin, Evan, 240
Maduro, Nicolás, 296
Mailer, Norman, 166, 404, 407
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, 302–3
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, 14, 16, 338
Manafort, Paul, 141, 180, 208, 239, 240, 241
Republican National Convention, 213–16, 225, 228–29
Manifest Destiny, 148
Manning, Richard, 21–22
Marijuana, 93, 100
Márquez, Gabriel García, 241
Marshall, George C., 117
Marshall, Will, 255, 282
Marshall Plan, 117
Martin, Harold T., 330
Martin, Trayvon, 399–400, 402, 411
Marx, Karl, 23
Matalin, Mary, 158–59
Mateen, Omar, 178–79
Mather, Cotton, 146, 148
Mattson, Ingrid, 192–93
Maurer, David, 118
May, Theresa, 374
Mayer, Jane, 355
Medicare, 265, 269, 360
Medicare for All, 96
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, 370
Memorial Day, 167, 174–75
Merkel, Angela, 300, 387
Mexican border wall, 69–71, 103, 140, 178, 295
Michigan Primaries of 2016, 123
Middle class, 85, 257–58, 284–85
Mike Douglas Show, The (TV show), 207, 224
Military draft, 166–67, 171, 172, 368
Military spending, 100, 140
Miller, Zell, 259n
Minimum wage, 66, 94, 96, 267, 271–72, 275, 318–19, 327, 356
Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, 134–35
Mnuchin, Steve, 388–89
Mondale, Walter, 94, 253
Moonves, Leslie, 328
Moore, Roy S., 329
Morrow, Rob, 122, 242
Mosul, 204, 335–37, 338, 369
Mother Teresa, 125
Moyers, Bill, 129
Murchison, Clint, Sr., 116
Murdoch, Rupert, 179
Murrow, Edward R., 117–18
Musk, Elon, 70
Muslim ban, 239
Mussolini, Benito, 60, 67, 105, 346, 347
NAFTA, 29, 271
National Rifle Association (NRA), 13, 183–88, 193–97
“Natural born citizen,” 37–38
Nautonomy, 90, 91, 92, 319–20, 359
Nazi Germany, 161, 207, 327, 346, 352–53
Neoliberalism, 28–29, 254–55, 284–85
Nevada Democratic Caucus of 2016, 103
Nevada Republican Caucus of 2016, 104
Newark Public Schools, 124
New Deal, 7–8, 9, 28, 95, 116–17, 253, 258, 265–66, 276, 293, 321, 348–49, 351–52, 359, 361–62, 365, 399n
New Democrats, 28–29, 85, 94, 253–68, 284–85, 291
New Hampshire Republican Primary of 2016, 100–101
New Jersey Democratic Primary of 2016, 178
New Orleans Declaration, 256–58
New York Primaries of 2016, 140–41
“New York values,” 38–39, 61
NFL national anthem protests, 296–97
Nice terrorist attacks, 205, 206, 210
Nickel, Rebecca, 303
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 347
Nixon, Richard, 115, 212, 236, 263, 382n
election of 1968, 207, 224, 225, 234, 235, 236
election of 1972, 94
Southern Strategy, 131, 132, 133, 137
Norris, Chuck, 124
Norris, J. Frank, 110
North Korea, 13, 105–6, 125, 295, 297
Nunn, Sam, 259n
Obama, Barack
The Audacity of Hope, 31–32, 33
birtherism smear, 138, 299–300, 401–3, 403n
election of 2016 and, 64–65, 83, 178–79, 212, 213, 246, 298–99, 371
presidency of, 278–79, 362, 380–81, 382–83
January, 13, 14, 15
February, 100, 101, 104
March, 122, 124, 125–26
May, 157, 159–60, 161–62
June, 178–82
July, 203, 204, 205, 208
August, 239, 240, 243
October, 330–31, 334–35, 336
November, 391–92, 393
Obama, Michelle, 205, 206, 246, 252, 392
Obamacare, 28, 49, 50, 52–54, 53n, 181, 217, 235, 355n, 360
Occupy Wall Street, 5, 89–90, 91, 315
O’Daniel, Wilbert Lee “Pappy,” 108–13, 118
Oettinger, Günther, 367
Ohio water supply, 16–17, 21–22
Oklahoma earthquakes, 296, 333
Old Gringo, The (movie), 174
Oliveri, Jesse, 160
One Percent, 87–94, 121–22, 278–79, 284–85, 354
Originalism, 37–38
Orlando nightclub shooting, 178–79, 180, 202
Osnos, Evan, 366n
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 158
Our Principles PAC, 122
Outsourcing, 29–30
Oxford, Kelly, 333
Packer, George, 252
Page, Larry, 363
Painter, Richard W., 339
Pakistan, 126, 192, 238, 338, 372
Paladino, Carl, 392
Palihapitiya, Chamath, 363
Palin, Sarah, 15, 41, 123, 373
Panama Canal, 306
Panama Papers, 139
“Paranoid Style in American Politics, The” (Hofstadter), 50, 188, 196–97
Paris Agreement, 16, 141, 373
Paris terrorist attacks, 69, 125, 165
Parker, Ashley, 40
Pathos, 245–46, 294
Path to Power, The (Caro), 342–44, 348
Patman, Wright, 294, 322
Patton, George, 170
Paul, Ron, 392
Paulson, Henry, 277
Peck, Gregory, 174
Pelosi, Nancy, 43, 239, 277, 390
Peña Nieto, Enrique, 295
Pence, Mike, 205, 214, 331, 333–34, 372, 374
Penn, Sean, 13
Perkins, Tom, 358
Perot, Ross, 267
Perry, Rick, 122, 159, 390
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, 273n
Peterson, Pete, 360
Philippines, 241, 388
Phillips, Kevin, 132
Pierce, Franklin, 7
Pierson, Katrina, 242
Pierson, Paul, 347, 362–63
Planned Parenthood, 14, 17, 49, 50, 181
Podesta, John, 249, 337, 339
Poe, Edgar Allan, 412
Police shootings, 142, 202–3, 204, 205, 207, 210–11, 226, 238–39, 241, 300, 301, 400
Political correctness, 3, 378, 411
Political phonies, 107–19
Popovich, Gregg, 372
Porn, 20
Powell, Colin, 299, 392
Powers, Kevin, 175
Priebus, Reince, 20, 138
Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, 349
Puritans, 145–46
“Pursuit of happiness,” 6, 6n, 8, 316, 324
Putin, Vladimir, 2, 69, 297, 300, 389, 391
Quayle, Dan, 123, 225
Race-baiting, 259–61
Racial entitlement, 409–10, 414
Racial profiling, 42n, 399
Racism, 1, 4–5, 6, 64–65, 85n, 87, 129–38, 238–39, 370, 399–405
Rahami, Ahmad Khan, 300
Rainey, Lawrence, 134
Rand, Ayn, 356, 356n, 360–61, 363
Rawlings, Mike, 205
Rayburn, Sam, 349
Reagan, Nancy, 123
Reagan, Ronald, 9, 374
American Exceptionalism and, 145, 147
election of 1980, 133–34, 147, 253
Neshoba County Fair “states’ rights” speech, 133–34, 135–36, 259
presidency of, 351, 362
Southern Strategy, 133–36
Ted Cruz and, 15, 50, 55
Reagan Democrats, 137–38, 260, 261–62
Reagan Revolution, 9, 28, 50, 384
Rector, Ricky Ray, 259
Redding, Otis, 354
Reed, David, 347
Reed, John, 276
Reid, Harry, 43, 243, 339
Render, Michael, 14
Republican National Convention (2016), 205, 206, 207, 209–36
Reynolds, Debbie, 393
Reynolds, Diamond, 203
Rice, Condoleezza, 159
Rice, Tamir, 142
Richards, Keith, 136
Ricketts, Todd, 122
Riefenstahl, Leni, 207
Rio Olympic Games, 161, 180, 181, 182, 204, 237, 238, 240–41
Rivera, Geraldo, 218
Robb, Charles, 255
Roberts, John, 405–11, 408n
Robinson, Jackie, 130, 139
Robinson-Patman Act, 322
Rock, Chris, 15, 105
Rock, The (movie), 204
Rockefeller, John D., IV, 268
Rockefeller, Nelson, 129–30
Roe v. Wade, 372
Romney, Mitt, 123, 137, 159, 177, 178, 288, 301, 361, 374
Roof, Dylann, 370, 375
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 318–19, 322
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 90, 318–19, 321, 322, 324, 327, 352–53
New Deal, 7–8, 9, 116–17, 348–49, 351–52, 399n
Roosevelt, Theodore, 306, 348, 350–51
Rorty, Richard, 325–27
Rothenberg, Randall, 254
Rousseff, Dilma, 296
Rove, Karl, 102, 136–37
Rubin, Robert, 275–77, 281
Rubio, Marco, 172, 180, 204, 238, 387
election of 2016, 99–101, 104–5, 121–25, 165
Rumsfeld, Donald, 299
Rural Electrification Act of 1936, 349
Russell, Bill, 199
Russell, Richard, 129
Russian hacking, 179, 208, 239, 297, 331, 337, 372, 373, 389, 390–91, 393
Ryan, Paul, 100, 159, 177–78, 180, 202, 237, 332, 333, 373
Salerno, Anthony “Fat Tony,” 73
San Antonio Spurs, 372
Sanders, Bernie
election of 2016, 138, 250–51, 282, 282n, 290n, 293, 337, 385
Iowa Caucuses, 19–20, 27–28, 30, 77–96, 99
February, 100, 101, 103, 104, 108
January, 14
March, 123, 125, 126
April, 140, 142
May, 158, 160, 162
June, 178–79
July, 204–5, 207–8
oratorical style of, 86–88, 91–92
Sanders, Jane, 85–86, 96
Sandy Hook school shooting, 185, 219, 391
Santorum, Rick, 99, 220
Sarandon, Susan, 103
Sasse, Ben, 177
Savings and loan crisis, 266, 277, 279, 350–51
Sawyer, Diane, 32
Scalia, Antonin, 51n, 101–2, 124, 159, 235, 383, 408–10
Schlafly, Phyllis, 297
Schultz, Howard, 373
Schwartz, Delmore, 152, 155
Schwarzman, Stephen, 388
Schwerner, Michael, 134–36
Scott, Keith, 301
Scott, Tim, 157
Scott, Walter, 400
Scott-Heron, Gil, 85
Seattle Mariners, 144–45
Second Amendment, 186, 195–96, 235, 238
Securities Act of 1933, 350
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 350
Sensenbrenner, James, 406
September 11 attacks, 102, 189–90, 193
Sessions, Jeff, 105, 335
Shelby County, Alabama v. Eric H. Holder, Jr., 405–11
Shivers, Allan, 116
Silicon Valley, 363
Silver, Nate, 299
Simmons, Russell, 123
Simone, Nina, 85
Simon & Garfunkel, 79–80
Slave patrols, 397–99, 401
Slavery, 4, 6–7, 85, 85n, 395–99
Smith, Margaret Chase, 116
Snoop Dogg, 204, 242
Snyder, Rick, 15, 140
Social contract, 81–82
Social Security, 265, 351, 353n, 354, 360
“Solow residual,” 80
South Carolina Democratic Primary of 2016, 104
South Carolina Republican Primary of 2016, 103
Southern Democrats, 128–31, 138
Southern Strategy, 5, 85, 130–38
Spanish-American War, 172
Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 116
Spiva, Bruce, 250
Springsteen, Bruce, 85
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 370
Starr, Kenneth, 160
“Star-Spangled Banner,” 144–45
Stein, Jill, 369, 375
Sterling, Alton, 202, 210
Stern, Howard, 335
Stewart, Martha, 242
Stiglitz, Joseph, 92
Stoller, Matt, 285, 294
Stone, Roger, 216, 232, 242
Stone Mountain Correctional Institute, 259–60
Student loans, 80, 93–94
Sullivan & Cromwell, 305–8
Summers, Larry, 83, 269–70
Sumner, William Graham, 361
Supreme Court appointments, 51–52, 102, 104, 124
Susman, Mort, 198–99
Syria, 160, 166–67, 180, 181, 238
Battle of Aleppo, 142, 297, 298, 300, 302, 329, 372, 390, 392
cease-fire and peace talks, 104, 105, 141
Syrian migrant crisis, 17, 140, 368–69
Taliban, 104, 122, 141, 201, 238, 297, 330, 334, 388
TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), 277, 280
Tea Party, 5, 40, 137, 216–17, 315, 354–55
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), 273n
Terwilliger, George J., III, 339
Texas Rangers, 144–45, 155–56
Thatcher, Margaret, 362
Thiel, Peter, 206, 363
Third Way, 256, 258, 268, 269–74, 292–93
Thompson, Hunter S., 183, 188–91, 193, 198
Thompson, Kenan, 83
Thune, John, 332, 334
Thurmond, Strom, 128, 130, 132
Thurow, Lester, 254
Tillerson, Rex, 389
Tolstoy, Nikolai, 369–70
Tour de France, 212
Transgender rights, 84, 126, 158, 160
Trans-Pacific Partnership, 288
Truman, Harry, 34, 34n, 116–17, 128
Trump, Donald
admirer of Lincoln, 149, 155
appearance of, 75–76
authenticity of, 2–3, 58–60, 108, 410
birtherism smear of, 138, 299–300, 401–3, 403n
celebrity and showbiz act of, 57–60, 68–69, 308–9, 312–14
charity claims of, 72–74
as a chickenhawk, 165, 166–67, 170–71
earlier presidential runs, 314–15, 314n
election of 2016, 1–4, 5–6, 41, 165, 166–67, 286, 327–28
Cruz and, 37–40, 41, 61, 71–72
Iowa Caucuses, 57–62, 64–77, 99
Republican National Convention, 206, 207, 209–36
January, 13, 15–16, 17
February, 100–105
March, 121–26
April, 139–42
May, 157–62
June, 177–82
July, 201–8
August, 237–43
September, 295–303
October, 329–39
November, 367–76
hypocritic spectrum and, 1–2
political rallies, 64–77, 124–25, 216–30, 238, 296, 337–38
post-election of, 387–93
presidency of, 377–79, 385–86
Trump, Donald, Jr., 230–31, 301, 386
Trump, Ivanka, 335, 372, 386, 390
Trump, Melania, 126, 206, 369, 370
Republican National Convention, 227–29
“Trump effect,” 388
Trump Organization, 386, 388
Trump University, 177, 178, 374
Tubman, Harriet, 141
Tunick, Spencer, 206
Turkish coup d’état attempt of 2016, 205–6, 210–11, 375
Turner, Brian, 175
Tydings, Millard, 115
Ukraine, 215, 239, 240, 303
University of Iowa Field House, 77–96
Valde, Mike, 52–54
Valentino, Rudolph, 49
Vampire Weekend, 85, 95, 96–97
Van der Bellen, Alexander, 388
Veblen, Thorstein, 96
Venona project, 117
Vidal, Gore, 145
Vietnam War, 170, 198–99
Vigoda, Abe, 16
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, 272n
Virgoe, Lisa M., 360n
Voice of America (VOA), 115
Volkswagen, 181, 387
Voter registration, 289–90
Voter suppression, 358–59
Voter turnout, 246–47, 247n
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 268n, 405–11
Wade, Dwyane, 242
Wagner Act, 352
Wallace, George, 403–5, 413
Wallenberg, Raoul, 367
Wall Street Crash of 1929, 349–50, 384
Walmart, 88, 267, 373
Ward, Kelli, 217
Warmbier, Otto, 13, 105–6, 125
Warren, Elizabeth, 178, 288
Wasserman Schultz, Debbie, 208, 249, 251
Wayne, John, 195
Weaver, John, 214, 216
Weill, Sanford “Sandy,” 276, 361
Weiner, Anthony, 242, 338–39
Weld, William, 161
Wells, Thomas, 238
Wesley, John, 25
West, Cornel, 82–86, 96
West, Kanye, 389
White, Dana, 206
White-backlash strategy, 129–31
White identity politics, 3–5, 129–31, 371
White supremacy, 85, 87, 134–35, 378, 399, 401, 408, 413
Whitman, Meg, 122
Whitman, Walt, 143, 149–50, 155–56
“Wichita Vortex Sutra” (Ginsberg), 79
Wiesel, Elie, 201
Wikileaks, 207, 330, 331, 332, 333, 337, 368
Wilders, Geert, 367, 389
Willenberg, Samuel, 104
Williams, Mason, 371
Wilmore, Larry, 157
Wilson, Woodrow, 146
Winfrey, Oprah, 64–65
Winthrop, John, 145–46, 147
Wisconsin Primaries of 2016, 140
Womack, Steve, 221, 222
Wood, Grant, 63, 63
Workplace flexibility, 267n
Yellen, Janet, 271
Yiannopoulos, Milo, 206–7
Zika virus, 16, 161, 177, 181, 205, 238, 239, 241–42, 296, 303
Zimmerman, George, 159, 402, 402n, 411
Z Society, 106
Zucker, Jeffrey, 387–88