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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Series Introduction
Introduction
Prologue
Part One: After the Revolution
1 Lambs and Bees or Tigers and Wolves
2 Half Pay, Full Taxes, and Engines of Vice
3 Officer Princes and the Art of Living Happily Ever After
4 Daniel Shays: From True Patriot to Counterfeit Public Enemy
5 A Little Rebellion Now and Then
Part Two: The War of 1812 and the Mexican War
6 Like Sweet Poison on the Taste
7 Just Debts and Common Sense
8 St. Patrick Goes to Mexico
Part Three: The Civil War
9 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the Concussion of Young Men
10 The Day That Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Voted in Indiana
11 Bounties and Blacks
12 Palace of Pensions
Part Four: The War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection
13 Embalmed Beef, Bad Water, Typhoid, and Five-Dollar Coffins at Montauk Point
14 Of Mutilations, Massacres, and McKinley
Part Five: After the First World War
15 When Italians Lacked the “Conveniences for Thinking” and Black Mothers Traveled Second Class
16 67,000 Quarts of Whiskey, Enough Floor Wax to Cover South Dakota, and “to hell with the Central Office”
17 Mellon, du Pont, and the Chamber of Commerce: Fighting Is Its Own Reward
18 The Great Depression and the Ghost of Daniel Shays
Part Six: After the Second World War
19 Sweet Wine at Last
20 Forgotten Women, Failed Men
Part Seven: The Korean War
21 The Scapegoats
22 The Scapegoaters
Part Eight: The Vietnam War and the Agent Orange Affair
23 The Red Carpet Leads to Rejection
24 When Not to Know Means Not to Pay
25 The VA and Dow versus the Christians
26 Avoid Politicians and Lawyers and Get a Good PR Man
27 The White House Suppresses a Report
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Copyright Page
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