1. Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress 1
2. Drawing the Color Line 23
3. Persons of Mean and Vile Condition 39
4. Tyranny Is Tyranny 59
5. A Kind of Revolution 76
6. The Intimately Oppressed 102
7. As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs 124
8. We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God 147
9. Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom 167
10. The Other Civil War 206
11. Robber Barons and Rebels 247
12. The Empire and the People 290
13. The Socialist Challenge 314
14. War Is the Health of the State 350
15. Self-help in Hard Times 368
16. A People’s War? 398
17. “Or Does It Explode?” 435
18. The Impossible Victory: Vietnam 460
19. Surprises 493
20. The Seventies: Under Control? 529
21. The Coming Revolt of the Guards 570
Bibliography 583
Index 601