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

war avoided in, 217, 218, 219

Currency Act of 1764, 37–38, 41, 44

Custis, Martha. See Washington, Martha Custis

Davis, Jefferson, 110, 133–135, 138

deaths. See casualties

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

Declaration of Independence, 23–24

African Americans in, 106, 107, 113

on American Indians, 47–52

Britain’s 1767 declaration and, 33–34

forming of, 42–45

on land speculation and ownership, 35, 46–52

Stamp Act and origins of, 39, 42, 44–45

taxation without representation and, 44–46

Washington, G., and, 43, 47, 50–51

wealth protection as motive for, 42, 44, 47, 51–52

declaration of war. See war, declaration of

defense spending

from 1929–1945, 157 (fig.)

from 1939–1948, 162, 163 (fig.)

from 1945–2015, 201–202, 201 (fig.)

from 1990–2015, 235, 235 (fig.)

Britain’s, on colonies, 37, 39, 41, 45, 52–53

in Bush, G. W., administration, 204

FDR and expansion of, 155–156, 162–163, 172

See also war financing and costs

democracy

FDR’s speech on, 159, 160–161

US compared to global, 5

war authority in, 242–243

as war justification, 3, 5–6

Democratic Party

on airstrikes against Syria, 227, 227 (fig.)

on FDR’s third term, 151–152

LBJ compared to Bush, G. W., support in, 208–209, 208 (fig.), 212

Lincoln’s campaign dividing, 20

post-Civil War success of, 140

troop withdrawal from Iraq delay and, 221

Democrat-Republican Party (pre-1854), 60, 88, 190

factions in, 76–77

War of 1812 support in, 76, 77–79, 178, 202

See also War Hawks

Depression. See Great Depression

Dinwiddie, Robert, 31–32, 34–35, 42, 49

discrimination. See racial discrimination

dissolution, national

events precipitating, 130–131, 134

Lincoln on, 94, 96, 115–116, 122, 128, 130, 131–132

Dobrynin, Anatoly, 230

Double V campaign, 167

Douglas, H. Ford, 1–2, 104

Douglas, Stephen, 10, 102, 104

in 1860 election, 122–126, 125 (fig.)

as Lincoln’s rival, 112, 114, 115, 122

on slavery, 106–107, 119–122

Douglass, Frederick, 104–105, 136–137

draft. See selective service

Dred Scott v. Sandford , 120, 123

Lincoln impacted by, 100, 103, 112, 114, 115, 117, 136

slavery and, 96, 99–103, 104, 119

economy, national

FDR’s achievements for, 144–145, 147–148, 163, 164

French and Indian War impact on, 37, 38–39, 52

presidential ranking and, 18–19, 18 (fig.), 254, 255 (fig.)

from 1700–1870, 56, 56 (fig.)

World War II and recovery of, 145–146, 145 (fig.)

See also debt, national

Eisenhower, Dwight, 15 (fig.), 17, 183, 228–229, 254, 255 (fig.)

elections, presidential. See presidential races

Electoral College, 86

in 1860 election, 124–125, 244

in 1940 election, 169

national welfare and, 244, 246

presidential races impacted by, 244–246

revision of, 243, 244–246

slavery’s influence on, 97, 124, 245

electoral politics

anti-Semitism and, 164

FDR and, 143, 145, 155, 163, 165, 168, 169, 172

JFK and, 231–233

of LBJ compared to Bush, G. W., 177

Lincoln and, 96, 139–140

Madison on, 8

Obama and, 227, 231

Emancipation Proclamation, 137

Emerson, John, 100

Erskine, David, 68

Evacuation Day, 69

executive branch. See presidents

expansionism, 86

American Indians impacted by, 70–71

Canadian territory and, 80–82, 83, 240, 250

northern states and, 80, 242

Polk and, 241–242

Spanish-American War and, 240–241

War of 1812 and, 61–62, 68–73, 76

Fairfax, Anne, 28

Fairfax, William, 28

FDR. See Roosevelt, Franklin

The Federalist Papers (Hamilton, Madison, and Jay), 239–240

Federalist Party, 56 (fig.), 64

in 1810, 76

attacks on, 79, 86, 88

opposition to, 59–60

support in Congress from 1792–1822, 79 (fig.)

War of 1812 opposition of, 77–79, 81, 84–86, 88

Fillmore, Millard, 18 (fig.), 19, 112–113, 123, 124 (fig.), 255 (fig.)

financing, war. See war financing and costs

fire-eaters, 134, 138

Flores-Macías, Gustavo A., 253

foreign aid, 236–238

foreign policy

analysis of Vietnam War’s, 183–184

FDR’s ability with, 163–164, 173

national welfare in, 243

Fort Necessity, 29–30

Foster, Augustus, 72

founding fathers, 5

conflict among, 52

government design and warnings of, 7–9

land speculation and ownership of, 35, 47, 250

on slavery, 96–99

on war authority, 11–12

War for Independence and, 22, 54

wealth and power of, 23–24, 35, 41–42, 52, 55–56, 57

See also American revolutionaries

France, 191

colonist battles with, over territory, 25–26, 28–29

on Syria crisis, 224–225, 226, 236

US trade with, in 1880s, 67

War of 1812 and, 67

in World War II, 145, 149, 151, 153, 158–159

See also Napoleonic Wars

Franklin, Benjamin, 35, 55, 212

free trade. See trade, free

Freeport Doctrine, 119–120

Frémont, John, 123, 124 (fig.), 125

French and Indian War, 43

economic impact of, 37, 38–39, 52

land grants for soldiers of, 34–35, 42

Washington, G., involvement in, 25–26, 30, 35, 42

frontier lands

American Indian claim to, 51–52, 61

British claim and battles over, 37, 48, 60, 69–70

French claim and battles over, 25–26, 28–29

Ohio Company grant for, 29–30

revolutionaries’s claim to, 47–48, 61, 68–69, 73

for soldiers of French and Indian War, 34–35, 42

War of 1812 for securing, 61–62, 68–73, 76

See also expansionism; land speculation and ownership

Fugitive Slave Act, 2, 98, 105–106

fur trade, 24, 70, 91

Gallatin, Albert, 67, 78, 83, 85, 202

Gartner, Scott, 210

GDP. See gross domestic products

Gelb, Leslie, 183–184

genocide, 5

George II (king), 24, 30, 31, 37

George III (king), 4, 22, 29–30, 37, 45–46, 52–56

gerrymandering, 245

Gore, Al, 176, 244

Grant, Ulysses S., 15 (fig.), 17, 177, 250, 255 (fig.)

Great Depression, 141–142, 144–145, 163, 164

Great Society, 176, 186–187, 196–198, 204

greed, 5

Greeley, Horace, 119, 132–133

Green, Duff, 128

gross domestic products (GDP)

from 1929–1945 and defense spending, 157 (fig.)

from 1929–1945 in US and UK, 145–146, 146 (fig.), 147

from 1939–1948 and defense spending, 162, 163 (fig.)

from 1990–2015 and defense spending, 235, 235 (fig.)

Iraq and Vietnam War spending and, 201–202, 201 (fig.)

Grotius, Hugo, 63–64

Grundy, Felix, 80, 81

Gulf War, 188, 190, 201, 201 (fig.)

Hale, John, 96, 122, 130

Half-King, 25, 49–50, 52

Hamilton, Alexander, 8, 52, 55, 77, 99, 239–240

Hancock, John, 55

Harding, Warren, 18 (fig.), 19, 255 (fig.)

Harrison, Benjamin, 70

Harrison, Benjamin (US President), 244, 255

Harrison, William Henry, 70–71, 87–88, 255 (fig.)

Hay, John, 1, 109

Hayes, Rutherford B., 18 (fig.), 19, 244, 255 (fig.)

Henry, Patrick, 26, 53

Herndon, William, 116–117, 130

Hill, T. Arnold, 165

Hitler, Adolf, 147, 154, 164

falsity of, 151, 172, 224

Poland invasion by, 148–149, 158

threats to US by, 159

HMS Leopard , 65