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Theodore and Woodrow : how a Republican and a Democrat destroyed constitutional freedom / Andrew P. Napolitano.

by Napolitano, Andrew P.

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Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2012.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.

Liberty -- History.

Federal government -- United States -- History.

Constitutional history -- United States.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1909.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1913-1921.

9781595553515 (alk. paper)

1595553517 (alk. paper)

xviii, 298 p. ; 25 cm.

Introduction: the lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- The bull moose: Roosevelt's new party in his own image and likeness -- Reeducation camps: compulsory education -- Quiet men with white collars: the rise of the regulatory state -- The government's printing press: the Federal Reserve -- Destruction of federalism: the Seventeenth Amendment -- The "lesser races": racism and eugenics -- Service or slavery?: conscription -- The government tries to pick winners: labor law and the regulation of the workplace -- The government's new straw man: anti-trust -- Mismanagement, waste, and hypocrisy: conservation -- A fierce attack on personal freedom: Prohibition -- "The supreme triumphs of war": Roosevelt and international relations -- A reverberation of horrors: Wilson and international relations -- Propaganda and espionage: the domestic front during the Great War -- The government's grand larceny: the birth of the federal income tax -- What have we learned from all this?.

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