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8. Paul Bedard, “DNC Raises Confederate Flag, Civil War, to Slam Trump,” Washington Examiner, February 20, 2016.
9. Walter Russell Mead, “Andrew Jackson, Revenant,” American Interest, January 17, 2016.
10. Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861, abrahamlincolnonline.org.
11. David Catron, “Republicans and Women’s Rights,” American Spectator, April 30, 2012,
12. Jo Freeman, “How ‘Sex’ Got Into Title VII,” first published in Law and Inequality, Vol. 9, No. 2, March 1991, uic.edu.
13. See e.g. Matthew Yglesias, “Wrong or Race?,” Atlantic, December 24, 2007.
14. Eugene Rivers, “On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack,” Boston Review, February 1, 1992.
15. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States (New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), 262.
16. Steve Guest, “Bill Clinton’s Alleged Former Mistress: ‘Hillary Is A Lesbian,’” Daily Caller, February 16, 2016; Gennifer Flowers, Passion and Betrayal (Del Mar, CA: Emery Dalton, 1995), 41–42.
17. Maureen Callahan, “Bill’s Libido Threatens to Derail Hillary—Again,” New York Post, February 14, 2015.
18. Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham, 291.
19. Peter Schweizer, Clinton Cash (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 5.
CHAPTER 2
1. Cited by Steve Inskeep, Jacksonland (New York: Penguin Press, 2015), 45.
2. “Haitians Protest Outside Hillary Clinton’s Office Over ‘Billions Stolen’ by Clinton Foundation,” Washington Free Beacon, March 20, 2015; “Clinton Foundation HQ Protested for ‘Missing Money’ in Haiti Recovery,” Washington Free Beacon, January 12, 2015.
3. Peter Schweizer, Clinton Cash (New York: HarperCollins, 2015), 159.
4. Alana Goodman, “Haiti Fraudster Had Line to Clinton at State Department,” September 2, 2015.
5. Deborah Sontag, “An Award for Bill Clinton Came with $500,000 for His Foundation,” New York Times, May 29, 2015.
6. Mary Anastasia O’Grady, “The Clinton Foundation and Haiti Contracts,” Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2015.
7. Sarah Westwood, “Clinton Foundation Travels to Haiti Amid Criticisms,” Washington Examiner, July 30, 2015.
8. Kevin Sullivan and Rosalind Helderman, “How the Clintons’ Haiti Development Plans Succeed—and Disappoint,” Washington Post, March 20, 2015.
9. Steve Eder, “Tony Rodham’s Ties Invite Scrutiny for Hillary and Bill Clinton,” New York Times, May 10, 2015.
10. Schweizer, Clinton Cash, 189.
11. PBS, “The Democratic Party,” pbs.org.
12. Dinitia Smith and Nicholas Wade, “DNA Test Finds Evidence of Jefferson Child by Slave,” New York Times, November 1, 1998.
13. Robert Turner, “The Myth of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings,” Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2012.
14. Lucia Stanton, “Sally Hemings,” Thomas Jefferson Foundation, monticello.org; Annette Gordon-Reed, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1998); Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008); Eric Foner, “The Master and the Mistress,” New York Times Book Review, October 3, 2008.
15. Joyce Milton, The First Partner (New York: William Morrow, 1999), 94.
16. Inskeep, Jacksonland, 92, 104.
17. William McNeill, Plagues and Peoples (New York: Anchor Books, 1976).
18. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, xroads.virginia.edu.
19. Ralph Lerner, The Thinking Revolutionary (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 163.
20. Joseph Ellis, American Creation (New York: Vintage Books, 2008), 139.
21. Thomas Jefferson, message on Indian trade, January 18, 1803; Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Henry Harrison, February 27, 1803.
22. Sean Wilentz, Andrew Jackson (New York: Times Books, 2005), 6.
23. David Crockett, Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, by Himself (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), 89–90.
24. Letter from Andrew Jackson to Rachel, March 28, 1814, in Harriet Owsley et al., The Papers of Andrew Jackson (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980), vol. 3, 54; Timothy Horton Ball and Henry Sale Halbert, The Creek War of 1813 and 1814 (Montgomery: White, Woodruff & Fowler, 1895), 276–77.
25. Jackson to the Creek Indians, March 23, 1829, in Owsley et al., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 7, 112–13.
26. Jon Meacham, American Lion (New York: Random House, 2009), xvii.
27. Inskeep, Jacksonland, 205.
28. Arthur Peronneau Hayne to Jackson, August 5, 1817; in Owsley et al., The Papers of Andrew Jackson, vol. 4, 130–31.
29. Inskeep, Jacksonland, 88–89.
30. Ibid., 91.
31. Ibid., 99.
32. Ibid., 104.
33. Washington County Court, November 17, 1788; Robert Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767–1821 (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), vol. I, 15.
34. Meacham, American Lion, 303.
35. Lewis Cass, “Removal of the Indians,” North American Review, January 1830, vol. 30, 75.
36. Crockett, Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, by Himself, 205–6.
37. Worcester v. Georgia, 31 U.S. 515 (1832).
38. Inskeep, Jacksonland, 294–95.
39. Manning Marable, “Clarence Thomas and the Crisis of Black Political Culture,” in Toni Morrison, ed., Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power (New York: Pantheon Books, 1992), 82; “Backlash against Sowell,” Business Week, November 30, 1981, 119; “Final Cut: Spike Lee and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Rap on Race, Politics and Black Cinema,” Transition, Issue 52 (1991), 185.
40. Inskeep, Jacksonland, 323.
CHAPTER 3
1. Abraham Lincoln, “Fragment on Labor, 1847, in Mario Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds., Lincoln on Democracy (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 32.
2. Michael Warren, “Hotel Denies Hillary’s Claim of Employing Illegal Immigrants,” Weekly Standard, November 25, 2014.
3. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “What This Cruel War Was Over,” Atlantic, June 22, 2015.
4. Cited by Manisha Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000), 191.
5. John Hope Franklin, “The Moral Legacy of the Founding Fathers,” University of Chicago Magazine, Summer 1975, 10–13; Dennis Farney, “As America Triumphs, Americans Are Awash in Doubt,” Wall Street Journal, July 27, 1992, A-1; Bill Bradley, statement before the town hall of Los Angeles on March 23, 1992, reprinted in “The Real Lesson of L.A.,” Harper’s, July 1992, 10; Thurgood Marshall, address to the San Francisco Patent and Trademark Law Association, May 6, 1987.
6. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, xroads.virginia.edu.
7. Jon Meacham, American Lion (New York: Random House, 2009), 305.
8. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Henri Gregoire, February 25, 1809.
9. Frederick Douglass, “Address for the Promotion of Colored Enlistments,” July 6, 1863.
10. Mary Boykin Chesnut, Diary from Dixie (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 172, 184, 244.
11. Cited by James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 196; Drew Gilpin Faust, James Henry Hammond and the Old South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1982), 176.
12. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 56.
13. Ibid., 196.
14. Clyde Wilson, ed., The Essential Calhoun (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992), xxi, xxv, 396, 404; see also Paul Finkelman, Defending Slavery (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2003), 54–60; Jerry Tarver, “John C. Calhoun’s Rhetorical Method in Defense of Slavery,” in Waldo Braden, ed., Oratory in the Old South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1970), 169–89.
15. Eugene Genovese, The World the Slaveholders Made (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), 131.
16. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60
U.S. 393 (1857).
17. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, 19.
18. Harold Holzer, ed., The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), 151–52.
19. Harry Jaffa, Crisis of the House Divided (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).
20. Cuomo and Holzer, eds., Lincoln on Democracy, 3, 90, 120, 129, 131, 136, 207, 151, 316, 328.
21. William Gienapp, “The Crime against Sumner,” Civil War History, September 1979, 218–45.
22. Cited by Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery, 229.
CHAPTER 4
1. Melissah Yang, “Hillary Clinton’s Graduation Speech at Wellesley College Was Inspiring in 1969 & Her Words Still Hold True Now,” Bustle.com, April 14, 2015; Emma Roller, “What’s Changed Since Hillary Clinton’s 1960 Graduation Speech—and What Hasn’t,” National Journal, April 21, 2014.
2. Frederick Douglass, “The Destiny of Colored Americans,” North Star, November 16, 1849.
3. Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), 26.
4. Cited by Bruce Bartlett, “Whitewash,” Wall Street Journal, December 24, 2007.
5. George Fredrickson, White Supremacy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), 278.
6. John Townsend, Address to the Edisto Island Vigilant Association, October 29, 1860, civilwarcauses.org.
7. George Orwell, Burmese Days (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1934), 39.
8. Kenneth Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction (New York: Vintage Books, 1965), 50–51.
9. Andrew Johnson, “Third Annual Message to Congress,” December 3, 1867, presidency.ucsb.edu.
10. Charles Carroll, The Negro a Beast (St. Louis: American Book and Bible House, 1900); Charles McCord, The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent (Nashville: Benton Printing, 1914); Robert Shufeldt, The Negro, a Menace to American Civilization (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1914); Robert Shufeldt, America’s Greatest Problem: The Negro (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 1915).
11. Cited by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), 341.
12. Cited by A. Leon Higginbotham, Introduction, Genna Rae McNeil, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983), xvi.
13. Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
14. Dinesh D’Souza, The End of Racism (New York: Free Press, 1995), 176.
CHAPTER 5
1. Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization (New York: Dodo Press, 2007), 56.
2. Kevin Vance, “Sec. Clinton Stands By Her Praise of Eugenicist Margaret Sanger,” Weekly Standard, April 15, 2009; Mona Charen, “Mrs. Clinton Can’t Defend Patron Saint of Planned Parenthood,” National Review, April 24, 2009.
3. Margaret Sanger, letter to Clarence Gamble, October 19, 1939, Sanger manuscripts, Smith College.
4. AP, “Truman’s Racist Talk Cited by Historian,” Seattle Times, November 3, 1991; William Lee Miller, Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous World (New York; Vintage Books, 2012), 353.
5. Mike Riggs, “Sen. Robert Byrd Not Only Was a KKK Member but Led His Local Klan Chapter,” Daily Caller, June 28, 2010; David Love, “The Evolution of Robert Byrd’s Racial Politics,” TheGrio.com, June 28, 2010.
6. Reid Pillifant, “Hillary Clinton Remembers ‘Friend and Mentor’ Robert Byrd,” Observer, June 28, 2010; Ann Gerhart and Anne Kornblut, “At Memorial Service, West Virginia Says Farewell to Big Daddy Robert C. Byrd,” Washington Post, July 3, 2010; Eric Zimmerman, “Clinton Says Byrd Joined KKK to Help Him Get Elected,” Hill, July 2, 2010.
7. Mary Boykin Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Diary (New York: Penguin Books, 2011), 81–82.
8. Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” address to the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, April 1865, lib.rochester.edu.
9. Margaret Sanger, Women and the New Race, pamphlet from the Eugenics Publication Company, 1923.
10. Margaret Sanger, The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004), 374–75.
11. Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927).
12. Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013), 145.
13. Woodrow Wilson, “The Author and Signers of the Declaration,” September 1907, teachingamericanhistory.org.
14. Katznelson, Fear Itself, p. 167–68.
15. Cited in ibid., 89.
16. Roger Newman, Hugo Black (New York: Pantheon, 1994), 98.
17. Howard Ball, Hugo L. Black (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 98–99.
18. Cited by Katznelson, Fear Itself, 253.
19. Ronald Kessler, Inside the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).
20. Ronald Kessler, The First Family Detail (New York: Crown Forum, 2014), 32.
21. Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006).
22. Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority, (New York: Arlington House, 1969).
CHAPTER 6
1. Cited by John Diggins, Mussolini and Fascism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1972), 279.
2. Steve Bennen, “Under My Plan, Tuition Will Be Affordable for Every Family,” MSNBC, August 11, 2015.
3. Laura Meckler and Josh Mitchell, “Hillary Clinton Proposes Debt-Free Tuition at Public Colleges,” Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2015.
4. Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 260.
5. Michael Mullins, “JFK in Diary Admired Nazi Germany and Hitler, Book Claims,” Newsmax, May 24, 2013; Allan Hall, “How JFK Secretly Admired Hitler,” Daily Mail, May 23, 2013.
6. Cited by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Three New Deals (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 19.
7. Isaac Chotiner, “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” Slate, February 10, 2016.
8. Birth Control Review, May 1919.
9. Birth Control Review, April 1933.
10. Cited by Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, 260.
11. Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World Supremacy (New York: Charles Scribner Sons, 1926), 303, 306.
12. Madison Grant, The Passing of the Great Race (New York: Charles Scribner, 1926), xxviii–xxxi, 77, 167.
13. Margaret Sanger, “My Way to Peace,” speech to the New History Society on January 17, 1932, nyu.edu.
14. Harry Laughlin, Immigration and Conquest (New York: Chamber of Commerce, 1939).
15. Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in America (Boston: Beacon Press, 1944); Thomas C. Leonard, “Origins of the Myth of Social Darwinism: The Ambiguous Legacy of Richard Hofstadter’s Social Darwinism in American Thought,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2009), 37–51, Elsevier.com.
16. Ed Blewitt, “Marx and Engels on The Origin of Species,” worldsocialism.org, February 2009.
17. Cited by Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, 135.
18. Schivelbusch, Three New Deals.
19. Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, 14, 23.
20. Schivelbusch, Three New Deals, 15.
21. Patricia Vardin and Ilene N. Brody, ed., Children’s Rights: Contemporary Perspectives (New York: Teachers College Press, 1979).
22. Kenneth Keniston and the Carnegie Council on Children, All My Children (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1978).
23. Rahm Emanuel, statement to Wall Street Journal conference of corporate CEOs, November 19, 2008.
CHAPTER 7
1. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), xxi.
2. Rebecca Kaplan, “Obama’s Post-Presidential Life Begins to Take Shape,” CBS, May 13, 2015.
3. Cited by David Brock, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham (New York: Free Press, 1996), 14.
4. Sanford Horwitt, Let Them Call Me Rebel (New York: Vintage Books, 1992).
5. “The Professional Radical: Conversations with Saul Alinsky,” Harper’s, June 1965; “A Professional R
adical Moves in on Rochester: Conversations with Saul Alinsky, Part II,” Harper’s, July 1965; “Interview: Saul Alinsky,” Playboy, March 1972. The subsequent quotations from Alinsky are, unless otherwise indicated, from these interviews.
6. Mario Puzo, The Godfather (New York: Signet Books, 1978), 192–97.
7. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 30–31, 36.
8. Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1974), 224.
9. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, 24–25.
10. Horwitt, Let Them Call Me Rebel, xv–xvi.
11. Hillary Clinton, There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinsky Model, Wellesley College, 1969, economicpolicyjournal.com.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Horwitt, Let Them Call Me Rebel, 539.
15. Hillary Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2004), 38.
16. Michael Tomasky, Hillary’s Turn (New York: Free Press, 2001), 9.
CHAPTER 8
1. Hillary Clinton, tweet from @hillaryclinton, November 23, 2015. A few weeks earlier, on September 14, 2015, Hillary tweeted, “To every survivor of sexual assault . . . You have the right to be heard. You have the right to be believed. We’re with you.”
2. Andrew Kaczynski, “Watch This Rare, Long-Forgotten Interview with Young Hillary Clinton,” BuzzFeed, May 12, 2015.
3. Tim Murphy, “How Bernie Sanders Learned to Be a Real Politician,” Mother Jones, May 26, 2015.
4. Steven Nelson, “Biden Swims Naked, Upsetting Female Secret Service Agents,” usnews.com, August 1, 2014.
5. Ronald Kessler, The First Family Detail (New York: Crown Forum, 2014), 29–32; Robert Dallek, “Three New Revelations about LBJ,” Atlantic, April 1998.
6. Hillary Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2004), 466.
7. Eric Foner, “The Master and the Mistress,” New York Times Book Review, October 2, 2008.
8. Drew Gilpin Faust, James Henry Hammond and the Old South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982), 86–87.
9. Zach Noble, “Listen to Hillary Clinton Laugh while Talking about Getting a Suspected Child Rapist Off the Hook,” Blaze, June 16, 2014; Daniel Greenfield, “Former 12-Year-Old Rape Victim: ‘Hillary Clinton Took Me through Hell,’” frontpagemag.com, June 20, 2014.