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About this book
In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American antigovernment sentiment is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of our history. By debunking some of our fondest myths about the Founding Fathers, the Constitution, and the taming of the frontier, Wills shows us how our tendency to hold our elected government in disdain is misguided.
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Index
abolitionists, 198–201
southern opposition and violence against, 128, 184, 185
abortion:
as “holocaust” of unborn babies, 21, 223, 237, 238
laws protective of, 171, 237
abortion clinics:
bombing and disruption of, 21, 171, 223, 237–40
murder of doctors at, 223, 240
Ackerman, Bruce, 171, 174–77
Adams, Henry, 156, 160, 161, 263, 271, 276–77
political disillusionment of, 268–70
works of, 268–69, 273, 278
Adams, John, 27, 44, 73, 140, 156, 157, 209
anti-French policy of, 139, 153
balanced government concept of, 59, 130
presidency of, 134, 139, 153, 158, 163, 181
Adams, John Quincy, 60, 160, 161, 263–64
Adams, Samuel, 34, 35, 44, 45, 193
Afghanistan, 219
Africa, 129, 169
Agnew, Spiro, 283–84
Alabama, 239
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Bureau of (ATF), 204
Alcott, Bronson, 264, 268, 279, 290
Alien Act, 135, 140, 165
Alien and Sedition Acts, 134–36, 139–44, 148, 153, 156–58, 198
Alien Enemies Act, 135
Allegheny Mountains, 195, 199–200
Allende, Salvador, 315
Amar, Akhil Reed, 27, 109, 171–75, 177, 207, 208, 218–19, 220
American frontier, 318
crime and violence in, 242–46, 249–51
guns and gunfights in, 242–46
maintaining order and discipline in, 192, 223, 225–27
mining in, 250–51
myth of individualism in, 242–43, 251
railroads and technology in, 249, 251
social institutions of, 249, 250
staking claims in, 249–50
vigilantes of, 223
“wild west,” 24...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Key to Brief Citations
- Introduction
- I. Revolutionary Myths
- II. Constitutional Myths
- III. Nullifiers
- IV. Seceders
- V. Insurrectionists
- VI. Vigilantes
- VII. Withdrawers
- VIII. Disobeyers
- IX. A Necessary Good
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright