Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition, Introduction, 1. War and American Freedom, 2. Classical Republicanism and the Right to Bear Arms, 3. Defenders of the Republic: The Anti-Interventionist Tradition in American Politics, 4. America's Two Just Wars: 1775 and 1861, 5. Rethinking Lincoln, 6. Did the South Have to Fight?, 7. War, Reconstruction, and the End of the Old Republic, 8. The Spanish-American War as Trial Run, or Empire as Its Own Justification, 9. World War I: The Turning Point, 10. World War I as Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals, 11. A Common Design: Propaganda and World War, 12. Rethinking Churchill, 13. The Old Breed and the Costs of War, 14. War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America: Conscription as the Keystone, 15. The Military as an Engine of Social Change, 16. His Country's Own Heart's-Blood: American Writers Confront War, 17. The Culture of War, 18. Is Modem Democracy Warlike?, 19. War and the Money Machine: Concealing the Costs of War Beneath the Veil of Inflation, 20. Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization: From Monarchy to Democracy, Appendices, Recommended Reading, About the Contributors, Index

About the Author

John Denson