America: Imagine a World without Her

Theory of Moral Sentiments, A, 163 Three Felonies a Day, 242 Titanic, 255 Todorov, Tzvetan, 91 tolerance, 22, 71 totalitarianism, 32, 208, 232, 245 traditional values, 81–82 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 108, 117–18 Truxillo, Charles, 109 Turner, Frederick Jackson, 153–54 Turner, Ted, 158–59, 162 U Ukraine, 205 Unger, Roberto Mangabeira, 11, 61, 63 United Farm Workers, 75 University of Chicago, 17, 74 University of Paris, 28 V vacuum cleaner, 68 Vespucci, Amerigo, 94 Vietnam, 30, 58–61, 68–69, 71, 76, 210, 212 Vietnam War, 11, 58, 60–61, 80 Virtue of Selfishness, The, 161 W Walmart, 198 Walt, Stephen, 5 Warren, Elizabeth, 156–57 Washington, Booker T., 137–38, 147–48, 150–51 Washington, George, 8, 43–44, 87, 90, 129 wealth African Americans and, 124 America and, 57, 108, 233 American debt and, 6 capitalism and, 29, 52 competition and, 24 distribution of, 170, 173, 179–81 life expectancy and, 184 looting and, 51, 166 middle class and, 182 military and, 249 modern wealth, 154 power and, 86 redistribution of, 22, 225 stolen goods philosophy, 17 theft and, 10, 12, 15–18, 154–58, 206, 214 transfer of, 222 wealth creation ethic, 18–20, 104, 250, 254

wealth creators, 218 Wealth of Nations, The, 159, 189 Weather Underground, 57–58, 80 Webster, Daniel, 122 welfare state, 16, 65–66 Wellesley College, 77–78 West and the Rest of Us, The, 193 Western civilization, 8–9, 10, 18, 24, 33, 96, 247 Westernization, 251 wheel, the, 18 When China Rules the World, 252 White Face, Charmaine, 90–92, 103–5 Whitman, Walt, 116, 132 Wilde, Oscar, 164 Williamson, Joel, 139–40 Wilson, Woodrow, 12 Wolfe, Tom, 181 Wolff, Richard, 179, 223 work, 29, 37, 44, 51–54, 64, 70–71, 108, 118, 126, 128–29, 142–43, 149, 151, 155, 160–64, 171–75, 195, 199, 216–18, 222–23, 227, 245 workers, 12, 54, 143, 156, 158, 160, 163–64, 171–72, 174–75, 178, 185–86, 190, 195–99. See also working people working people, 43–44, 64, 81, 128, 156. See also workers world peace, 6 World Trade Center, 59 World War II, 7–9, 62, 69–70, 94, 147, 180, 208, 211, 214, 223, 251 Wright, Jeremiah, 11, 61, 63, 65 Z Zakaria, Fareed, 5 Zinn, Howard, 13–14, 22, 43, 92, 94, 102 Zuckerberg, Mark, 162