Theodore and Woodrow
Subtitle: how a Republican and a Democrat destroyed constitutionally protected freedoms
By: Andrew P. Napolitano
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nashville, Tenn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781595553515
Subjects: Constitutional history; Politics and government; Federal government; Liberty; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson; title: The bull moose: Roosevelt's new party in his own image and likeness; title: Reeducation camps: compulsory education; title: Quiet men with white collars: the rise of the regulatory state; title: The government's printing press: the Federal Reserve; title: Destruction of federalism: the Seventeenth Amendment; title: The "lesser races": racism and eugenics; title: Service or slavery?: conscription; title: The government tries to pick winners: labor law and the regulation of the workplace; title: The government's new straw man: anti-trust; title: Mismanagement, waste, and hypocrisy: conservation; title: A fierce attack on personal freedom: Prohibition; title: "The supreme triumphs of war": Roosevelt and international relations; title: A reverberation of horrors: Wilson and international relations; title: Propaganda and espionage: the domestic front during the Great War; title: The government's grand larceny: the birth of the federal income tax; title: What have we learned from all this?.