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

Hollande, François, 224–225

Hoover, Herbert, 140, 146, 255 (fig.)

“House Divided” speech, 3, 114–118, 121, 123, 130, 131–132, 137

House of Burgesses, 30, 31, 32

human cost

independent estimates for, 243, 248–251, 253

LBJ on equality in sharing, 214, 215

minimizing, 243

public support for war and, 210–211, 214, 253

Hussein, Saddam, 20

Bush, G. W., agenda with, 195, 216, 253

death of, 195

Gulf War and, 188

as Iraq War justification, 189, 190, 193–194

Ickes, Harold, 169–170

immigration, 164

impressment, 65–66, 68

Independent Party, 227, 227 (fig.)

Indians. See American Indians

Iraq War, 82

advisors against, 193–194

Bush, G. W., initiation and policies of, 5–6, 178, 182–183, 188–196, 245

Bush, G. W., reelection and, 176–177, 182–183, 189, 195–196, 199–200, 208–209, 215–216

casualties in, 182, 182 (fig.), 194–195, 210

financing and costs of, 178, 200–203, 201 (fig.), 235, 247–248, 252

justifications for, 12, 176, 189–194, 215–216

9/11 and start of, 193–194

partisan support for, 190

public opinion and support of, 182, 182 (fig.), 215–216

secrecy around, 195, 202–203, 216

support for, by wealthy, 200, 206

troop withdrawal assurances and, 220–222

Vietnam War compared with, 178–183

See also Hussein, Saddam

The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked (Gelb and Betts), 183–184

Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), 218, 221, 225

Jackson, Andrew, 15 (fig.), 17, 87, 123, 137, 255 (fig.)

Japan, 160

Japanese Americans, 169–170

Jay, John, 239–240, 244

Jefferson, Thomas, 8, 10, 52, 74

on American Indians, 51, 71

Declaration of Independence and, 47, 49

land speculation of, 35, 47, 250

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

on secession, 126–127

on slavery, 97, 98

wealth of, 55

Jeffersonian Republicans. See Democrat-Republican Party (pre-1854)

Jews, 164–165

JFK. See Kennedy, John F.

Jim Crow, 140, 164, 167, 169

Johnson, Lyndon Baines (LBJ), 9, 20, 108, 255 (fig.)

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

cabinet of, 186

civil rights work of, 177, 187, 188, 197–198, 213

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

human cost equality and, 214, 215

on military service and social class, 212–214

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

political maneuvering of, 95, 195

public support and opinion of, 176, 177, 179–181, 187–188, 208–209, 208 (fig.), 215

reelection pursuit by, 176, 177, 178, 188, 199, 208

selective service lotteries of, 213–214

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

Vietnam War actions of, 175–176, 178, 181–188, 199

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

Johnson, Richard, 80

Jumonville Affair, 25, 30, 50

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, 102, 104, 110, 120, 122

Kant, Emmanuel, 212, 214

Kennedy, John F. (JFK), 255 (fig.)

assassination of, 9, 175, 185, 196–197, 209

Obama compared to, 230, 231–232

self-interest of, 231, 238

Vietnam War policy and, 9, 183, 185–186

See also Cuban missile crisis

Kennedy, Robert (RFK), 230, 232–233

Khrushchev, Nikita, 219, 228–234

Know-Nothing Party, 112–113

Koerner, Gustave, 105

Korean War, 201, 201 (fig.)

Kreps, Sarah, 253

land speculation and ownership, 27

American Indians and rights to, 48–52, 61, 70–71, 189

Britain on colonial, 4, 29–30, 33–34, 44, 46–52

Declaration of Independence on, 35, 46–52

of founding fathers, 35, 47, 250

Ohio Company’s, 32

of Washington, G., 31, 35–36, 42, 47, 48–49

See also expansionism

Lavrov, Sergey, 224–225

The Law of War and Peace (Grotius), 64

LBJ. See Johnson, Lyndon Baines

Lee, Thomas, 29, 30

Lee, William, 97

Lend-Lease Act, 147

Liberal Party, 242

Lincoln, Abraham, 9–10

achievements of, 138

ambition and motives of, 5, 20, 93–94, 95, 103, 107, 121, 138

assassination of, 138

cabinet of rivals and, 107–109

Civil War duration and, 110–111, 250

Civil War motivations of, 93–96, 114, 117, 130–131, 132, 133, 138

Crittenden Compromise of, 128, 131–132

on dissolution of union, 94, 96, 115–116, 122, 128, 130, 131–132

Douglas, S., as rival to, 112, 114, 115, 122

Dred Scott case impact on, 100, 103, 112, 114, 115, 117, 136

election of 1860 and, 96, 112–113, 122–126, 125 (fig.), 244

electoral politics and, 96, 139–140

“House Divided” speech of, 3, 114–118, 121, 123, 130, 131–132, 137

as lawyer, 105–106, 112

on Mexican-American War, 13–14

mythology of, 1–2, 93–94, 109, 139

political ability and strategy of, 96, 109–119, 124–126, 135, 136

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

reelection of, 137

on secession, 126, 127–130, 132–136, 139

on slavery, 2, 3, 95, 103–107, 114–116, 118–121, 136–137

Lindsey, Lawrence, 248

Louisiana Purchase, 253

Madison, James, 52, 126, 127, 196, 244

as Constitution architect, 73

ranking of, 255 (fig.)

on Tidewater gentry, 26, 53

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

war apprehension and motivation of, 89–90

War of 1812 and, 20, 59–63, 64, 65–68, 70–73, 74, 78, 87–90, 178, 241, 250–251

al-Maliki, Nouri, 221

Manifest Destiny, 48, 241–242

Mason, George, 30, 39, 53

McClellan, George, 111, 137, 250

McKinley, William, 9, 17, 240–241, 255 (fig.)

McNamara, Robert, 184, 202

Medvedev, Dimitri, 222

Memminger, Christopher, 133–134

Mercer, John, 30–31

Mexican-American War, 13–14, 110, 240–242, 254

military, US

in 1940 compared to 1942, 156

racial discrimination in, 166–169, 211, 250

socioeconomic divisions in, 211, 212–214

See also selective service

Minsk Protocol, 219–220

Missouri Compromise of 1820, 80, 100, 101–103, 118, 131, 132

Monroe, James, 87, 255 (fig.)

Morris, Robert, 55

Murray, John, 42

mythology

of Lincoln, 1–2, 93–94, 109, 139

in presidential history, 1–4, 93–94

of war, 5–7

Nader, Ralph, 241

Napoleonic Wars, 64–66, 86–87

National Bank, 77

national defense. See defense spending

national security, 11, 185

national welfare

ambition conflicting with, 4–5

Civil War and, 96

Electoral College and, 244, 246

in foreign policy, 243

presidents ranked by, 254, 255 (fig.)

war decisions and impact on, 217–218, 240–241

war financing and, 178

Native Americans. See American Indians

navy, British, 63

impressment of American sailors by, 65–66, 68

power of, 76, 84

navy, US

African Americans in, 167–168

establishment of permanent, 83–84

during War of 1812, 84, 87

Nazis, 147–148, 154–155, 158

Nebraska Bill. See Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

negotiation, 91, 149, 185, 243, 254

neutrality, declaration of, 150–151, 152–154

Neutrality Act of 1935, 153, 154

New Deal, 144–145, 146–147, 148, 158, 170, 171–172

Nicolay, John, 1, 109

9/11. See September 11

Nixon, Richard, 178, 254, 255 (fig.)

northern states, 109, 139–140

Civil War capability of, 110–111