Алистер Смит - The Spoils of War - Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents

FDR support from, 164–165

LBJ on, 187

Lincoln’s varied support of, 136

in military service, 166–168

See also segregation; slavery

agriculture, 76

Algonquin (tribe), 49–50

ambition, 151

FDR’s reelection, 143, 153–155, 159, 163, 165, 169–170

of Lincoln, 5, 20, 93–94, 95, 103, 107, 121, 138

Madison on war and, 2, 4, 7–8, 10, 16, 53, 73, 89–90, 94, 138, 218, 239–240

national welfare and, 4–5

war motives and political, 5, 6–8, 11, 188–189, 218, 242–243

of Washington, G., 15, 28

See also self-interest

American colonists. See colonists, American

American Indians

Britain’s collaboration with, 61–62, 68–71

colonist treatment of, 24, 70, 90

Declaration of Independence and, 47–52

land rights battles with, 48–52, 61, 70–71, 189

War of 1812 and, 61–62, 68–72, 73, 80, 90, 240

wars with, 14, 24

Washington, G., relations with, 23–24, 49–51, 52

See also French and Indian War

American Revolution, 14, 17, 21–22, 28

frontier security with, 69

outcome alternative for, 52–55

outcome overview of, 55–57

slaves in, 98

Stamp Act and origins of, 39

American revolutionaries, 21, 23, 28

frontier land claims of, 47–48, 61, 68–69, 73

grievances of, 42–43

political theory of, 8–9

American War for Independence. See War for Independence, American

anti-Semitism, 164

Arrow, Kenneth, 241

al-Assad, Bashar, 218, 222–226, 232, 234, 238

assassination

of JFK, 9, 175, 185, 196–197, 209

of Lincoln, 138

Baldwin, John, 131

Ball, George, 108, 184–185

Bates, Edward, 113

Bay of Pigs invasion, 229

Bayard, James, 82–83, 85

Bell, John, 124, 125, 125 (fig.), 135

Bennett, Scott, 110–111

Betts, Richard, 183–184

Biden, Joseph, 210

Bill of Rights. See Constitution, US

Bilmes, Linda, 201, 252

Birney, James, 241–242

Blow, Peter, 100

Breckinridge, John, 110, 124–125, 125 (fig.), 133–135

Britain

American Indian collaboration with, 61–62, 68–71

Canadian territory and, 55, 69, 74, 90–91

colonial boycott of goods from, 39

colonial defense costs for, 37, 39, 41, 45, 52–53

colonial land control by, 4, 29–30, 33–34, 44, 46–52

currency restriction on colonists by, 37–38, 44

frontier claims and battles of, 37, 48, 60, 69–70

GDP from 1929–1945, 145–146, 146 (fig.)

in Napoleonic Wars, 64–66, 86–87

1767 declaration from, 33–34

in 1770s, 21–22

slavery abolition in, 55, 99

Stamp Act of 1765 by, 38–41, 42, 44–45, 53

taxation of colonists by, 38, 41–42, 44, 53

trade with, in 1880s, 67

wealth of founding fathers and, 23–24

in World War II, 149, 156, 157

See also Declaration of Independence; navy, British; War for Independence, American; War of 1812

Brown v. Board of Education , 100

Buchanan, James, 103, 123, 124 (fig.), 128, 133, 255 (fig.)

Burr, Aaron, 77

Bush, George H. W., 188, 193, 235 (fig.), 244, 255 (fig.)

Bush, George W., 20

Hussein agenda of, 195, 216, 253

on Iraq and WMDs, 189–190, 192

Iraq War initiation and policies of, 5–6, 178, 182–183, 188–196, 245

Iraq War secrecy and, 195, 202–203, 216

LBJ compared with, 177, 196, 199–215, 205 (fig.), 207 (fig.), 208 (fig.), 252

national debt impact by, 200, 207–208, 207 (fig.), 210

9/11 response by, 193, 195

partisan support of, 208–209, 208 (fig.), 212

public opinion and support of, 176, 177, 200, 208–209, 208 (fig.)

ranking of, 15 (fig.), 16, 17, 255 (fig.)

reelection and war for, 176–177, 182–183, 189, 195–196, 199–200, 208–209, 215–216

self-interest of, 177, 195–196, 214–215

taxation policy under, 203–208, 205 (fig.), 210, 252

2000 election of, 176, 244

war financing of, 202–210, 205 (fig.), 207 (fig.), 235, 235 (fig.)

Calhoun, John C., 60, 62, 68–69, 81, 88, 90

Califano, Joseph, 180–181, 186, 202

Canada

British colonial control in, 55, 69, 74, 90–91

expansion by seizing territory in, 80–82, 83, 240, 250

income per capita from 1700–1870 in, 56, 56 (fig.)

War of 1812 and, 80, 81–82, 87, 89, 90–91, 240

in World War II, 162

Castro, Fidel, 219, 228–229

casualties

in Civil War, 17, 94, 138

estimation of war, 243, 248–251

in Iraq War, 182, 182 (fig.), 194–195, 210

public opinion and support with war, 210–211

in Vietnam War, 179 (fig.), 180, 210

war, and presidential ranking, 14, 15–17, 15 (fig.)

in War for Independence, 22

in War of 1812, 65

CBO. See Congressional Budget Office

Chamberlain, Edwin, 168–169

Chamberlain, Neville, 149, 172

Chamberlain Plan, 168–169

Chase, Salmon, 113

chemical weapons

Putin and Obama’s response to Syrian, 222–226, 228, 231, 235–236

UN on Syria’s, 224–225

Cherokee (tribe), 14

Chesapeake , 65–66

Cheves, Langdon, 81, 83, 85

Churchill, Winston, 151, 159, 161–163

Cicero, 11

civil rights, 100

Double V campaign and, 167

FDR’s work on, 165–168

LBJ’s work on, 177, 187, 188, 197–198, 213

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 177

Civil War, 137

alternatives to, 139–140

capability of South compared to North in, 110–111

casualties in, 17, 94, 138

duration of, 110–111, 250

Lincoln’s motivations for, 93–96, 114, 117, 130–131, 132, 133, 138

prevention of, 55, 94

segregation in and after, 140, 167

southern politicians prior to, 133–134

class, socioeconomic. See wealthy

Clay, Henry

on expansionism, 81, 86

Polk’s defeat of, 241–242

as War Hawk leader, 60, 73, 90

War of 1812 support of, 74–75, 77–78, 90

Cleveland, Grover, 140, 255 (fig.)

Clifford, Clark, 108

Clinton, Bill, 235, 235 (fig.), 244, 255 (fig.)

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 109

colonists, American

American Indian treatment by, 70, 90

Britain’s taxation of wealthy, 38, 41–42, 44, 53

currency restriction on, 37–38, 44

George III’s treatment of, 52–55

Stamp Act of 1765 impact on, 38–41, 42, 44–45, 53

taxation with representation for, 45–46, 53–54

territory battles with France, 25–26, 28–29

See also American revolutionaries

communism

Cuban missile crisis and, 228, 230

as war motivation, 9, 183–186

Confederate States of America (CSA), 133–134, 135, 139, 140

Congress

declaration of war by, 14, 73, 74–75

Federalist Party support in, 79 (fig.)

war authority of, 11, 12, 13, 19

Congress of Vienna, 87

Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 247–249

Constitution, US, 49, 55

amendment process for, 135–136

on declaration of war, 19

Madison as architect of, 73

slavery and, 96–97, 99, 105, 118–119

on state secession and formation, 126–129

Continental Army, 22

Coolidge, Calvin, 18, 255 (fig.)

cost, war. See casualties; human cost; war financing and costs

Crawford, William, 35–36

Crimea. See Ukraine/Crimea crisis (2014)

Crittenden Compromise, 128, 131–132

Cronkite, Walter, 180

CSA. See Confederate States of America

Cuba

Eisenhower’s plot to overthrow, 228–229

nuclear weapons in, 219, 230–231, 232

Cuban missile crisis, 20

Ukraine crisis compared to, 228–234