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Index
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Canvas Moon America
Who Stole the Back of the Moon?
The Crash
Just One of Us Ducks
Death by Bankster
Death by Globalism
The Task
Part 1: The Economic Royalists and the Corporatist Conspiracy
Chapter 1: A Rendezvous with Destiny
The Great Forgetting
The Economic Royalists
A Crash Starts a Nation
The Next Cycle: The Civil War
FDR Wages War on the Royalists
The Road to War: Yesterday and Today
War
Chapter 2: A Corporate Call to Arms
The Sixties
The Powell Memo
On Campus
The GOP TV Memo and Roger Ailes
The Courts and the Capitol
Chapter 3: The Crisis Capitalists
Killing Keynes
The Mont Pelerin Society
Shock Troopers
A Global Shift
The “Crisis” Comes to America
Part 2: Why We Crashed
Chapter 4: A Middle-Class Primer
The Elusive Middle Class
Step One: Progressive Taxation
Step Two: A Social Safety Net
Step Three: Protections for Working People
Step Four: Rules in the Marketplace
Monopoly Endgame
Chapter 5: Reagan Kidnapped the Jetsons
Tax Cuts of Mass Destruction
More Unequal than Rome
The “Debt” Crisis
Shooting Santa
Republican President Clinton
A Giant Sucking Sound
Chapter 6: “Madness”
The Evolution of Madness
Monopolies Return
Global Psychopaths
Bankster Psychopaths
Financialization
The 1920s All Over Again
Even Worse than Before
Part 3: “Oppression, Rebellion, Reformation”
Chapter 7: A Revolution Denied
Jefferson’s Cycle of Revolutions
A History of Revolution
The Suicide Pact
Chapter 8: The Royalists Strike Back
A Tea Party Reimagined
Meet the Kochs
The Rise of the Kochtopus
Fox News Gets in the Game
Thwarted
Chapter 9: Betrayal on the High Court
Roberts Takes the Case
The Road to Personhood
Delphin Delmas v. Corporate Personhood
The Roberts Court Rules
Chapter 10: Masters of the Universe
First, Greece
It Spreads
Little Dictators
The ALEC Shadow Government
Democracy Defamed
Cancer Stage
Part 4: The Great Crash
Chapter 11: This Is the End
Germany Finally Wins World War II
Germany Goes Too Far
The Divergence and War
The China Syndrome
The Oil Shock
Military Misadventure
$1,200,000,000,000,000
Part 5: Out of the Ashes
Chapter 12: Organized People v. Organized Money
Move to Amend
Take On the Court
The Court Takes the Power
Depose the Kings!
Chapter 13: Repair the Fundamentals
Medicare Part E
Reclaim the Commons
Cure Wall Street’s Madness
Reinvest
Card Check
Printing Money
Jubilee
No Billionaires!
Chapter 14: Green Revolution
Decentralization
The Tipping Point
Stripping Oil of Its Strategic Value
Tipping Point Reached
Chapter 15: Democratize the Economy
The Silent Revolution
The Dragon’s Mountain
The Mercedes and the Labor Union
The Seeds
Chapter 16: Epilogue—A Letter to My Great-Grandchildren
About the Author
Also by Thom Hartmann
Notes
About Twelve
Newsletters
Table of Contents
Copyright
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