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Table of Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. A Flash of the Possible 3. Big Government 4. Class 5. The Good War 6. Unsung Heroes 7. Hayes-Tilden Election of 1876 8. Timothy McVeigh 9. 9/11 10. The Greatest Generation 11. The Boston Massacre 12. Respecting the Holocaust 13. Afghanistan 14 The Others 15. Patriotism 16. Henry David Thoreau 17. Government Betrayal 18. From Euripides to Bob Dylan 19. Land Mines 20. The Supreme Court 21. Soldiers in Revolt 22. To End the War in Iraq 23. Truth and the White House 24. Break-In for Peace 25. Phillip Berrigan 26. Mississippi Freedom Summer 27. Civil Liberties During Wartime 28. Eugene Debbs 29. Film and History 30. Protest Literature 31. Immigration Nation 32. The Long War 33. Sacco and Vanzetti 34. The Optimism of Uncertainty Notes Credits and Permissions Bibliography Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy.
Democracy -- United States.
Political participation -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions.