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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Series Introduction -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Part One: After the Revolution -- 1 Lambs and Bees or Tigers and Wolves -- 2 Half Pay, Full Taxes, and Engines of Vice -- 3 Officer Princes and the Art of Living Happily Ever After -- 4 Daniel Shays: From True Patriot to Counterfeit Public Enemy -- 5 A Little Rebellion Now and Then -- Part Two: The War of 1812 and the Mexican War -- 6 Like Sweet Poison on the Taste -- 7 Just Debts and Common Sense -- 8 St. Patrick Goes to Mexico -- Part Three: The Civil War -- 9 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, and the Concussion of Young Men -- 10 The Day That Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio Voted in Indiana -- 11 Bounties and Blacks -- 12 Palace of Pensions -- Part Four: The War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection -- 13 Embalmed Beef, Bad Water, Typhoid, and Five-Dollar Coffins at Montauk Point -- 14 Of Mutilations, Massacres, and McKinley -- Part Five: After the First World War -- 15 When Italians Lacked the "Conveniences for Thinking" and Black Mothers Traveled Second Class -- 16 67,000 Quarts of Whiskey, Enough Floor Wax to Cover South Dakota, and "to hell with the Central Office" -- 17 Mellon, du Pont, and the Chamber of Commerce: Fighting Is Its Own Reward -- 18 The Great Depression and the Ghost of Daniel Shays -- Part Six: After the Second World War -- 19 Sweet Wine at Last -- 20 Forgotten Women, Failed Men -- Part Seven: The Korean War -- 21 The Scapegoats -- 22 The Scapegoaters -- Part Eight: The Vietnam War and the Agent Orange Affair -- 23 The Red Carpet Leads to Rejection -- 24 When Not to Know Means Not to Pay -- 25 The VA and Dow versus the Christians -- 26 Avoid Politicians and Lawyers and Get a Good PR Man -- 27 The White House Suppresses a Report -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors.