From the Book - First edition.
Index of American authoritarian attitudes
Lesson 1: American enlightened or authoritarian? Lincoln vs. Douglas
Lesson 2: fomenting fear: inauguaration day 2017 and the paranoid style
Lesson 3: all lies matter: the father of hate radio and deep-state conspiracies
Lesson 4: gagging the press, quashing dissent: seditious libel, 1798
Lesson 5: taking what is rightfully ours: America's lebensraum and the "treaty" of New Echota, 1835
Lesson 6: using fear and violence to control and subordinate others: the United States of Lyncherdom
Lesson 7: the driving out: Chinese persecution, exclusion, and massacre
Lesson 8: fear as a path to power: the Palmer raids
Lesson 9: galvanizing group identity: a Nazi demonstration of true Americanism
Lesson 10: silence of the law: the internment of American Japanese and the ugly abyss of racism
Lesson 11: fear breeds repression; repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government: Senator Joe's enemies from within
Lesson 12: the surveillance society and the big lie: total information awareness
Conclusion: Pogo was wrong? Fear, polarization, the 1619 project, and ten steps to strengthen America
Appendix 1: measuring commitment to democracy
Appendix 2: casuality and authoritarianism
Appendix 3: authoritarianism: definition, study, and measurement
