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I never do wrong without a cause : Geronimo, George Crook, Nelson A. Miles, and the ownership of America -- A dance of skeletons bathed in human tears : George Pullman, Eugene Debs, and the railway strike of 1894 -- Cast down your bucket where you are : Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and equal rights for blacks -- Damn-dam-damnation : John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and the environment -- The world must be made safe for democracy : Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and America's place among nations -- Ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished : Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the welfare state -- All the evil of the times : J. Robert Oppenheimer, Edward Teller, and the bombs -- No substitute for victory : Harry S. Truman, Douglas MacArthur, and the Korean War -- What in the name of God have we come to? : Richard M. Nixon, Daniel Ellsberg, and the Pentagon papers -- Men are not the enemy : Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, and the Equal Rights Amendment -- Race unfortunately still matters : Sandra Day O'Connor, Clarence Thomas, and affirmative action -- Reporting for duty! : John Kerry, George W. Bush, Iraq, and the War on Terror. |
