Theodore and Woodrow

Andrew P. Napolitano

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781595554215
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

"Either the Constitution means what it says, or it doesn't."

America's founding fathers saw freedom as a part of our nature to be protected—not to be usurped by the federal government—and so enshrined separation of powers and guarantees of freedom in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. But a little over a hundred years after America's founding, those God-given rights were laid siege by two presidents caring more about the advancement of progressive, redistributionist ideology than the principles on which America was founded.

Theodore and Woodrow is Judge Andrew P. Napolitano's shocking historical account of how a Republican and a Democratic president oversaw the greatest shift in power in American history, from a land built on the belief that authority should be left to the individuals and the states to a bloated, far-reaching federal bureaucracy, continuing to grow and consume power each day.

With lessons rooted in history, Judge Napolitano shows the intellectually arrogant, anti-personal freedom, even racist progressive philosophy driving these men to poison the American system of government.

And Americans still pay for their legacy—in the federal income, in state-prescribed compulsory education, in the Federal Reserve, in perpetual wars, and in the constant encroachment of a government that coddles special interests and discourages true competition in the marketplace.

With his attention to detail, deep constitutional knowledge, and unwavering adherence to truth telling, Judge Napolitano moves through the history of these men and their times in office to show how American values and the Constitution were sadly set aside, leaving personal freedom as a shadow of its former self, in the grip of an insidious, Nanny state, progressive ideology.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author’s Note
• Introduction: The Lives of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
• Chapter 1: The Bull Moose: Roosevelt’s New Party in His Own Image and Likeness
• Chapter 2: Reeducation Camps: Compulsory Education
• Chapter 3: Quiet Men with White Collars: The Rise of the Regulatory State
• Chapter 4: The Government’s Printing Press: The Federal Reserve
• Chapter 5: Destruction of Federalism: The Seventeenth Amendment
• Chapter 6: The “Lesser Races”: Racism and Eugenics
• Chapter 7: Service or Slavery?: Conscription
• Chapter 8: The Government Tries to Pick Winners: Labor Law and the Regulation of the Workplace
• Chapter 9: The Government’s New Straw Man: Anti-Trust
• Chapter 10: Mismanagement, Waste, and Hypocrisy: Conservation
• Chapter 11: A Fierce Attack on Personal Freedom: Prohibition
• Chapter 12: “The Supreme Triumphs of War”: Roosevelt and International Relations
• Chapter 13: A Reverberation of Horrors: Wilson and International Relations
• Chapter 14: Propaganda and Espionage: The Domestic Front during the Great War
• Chapter 15: The Government’s Grand Larceny: The Birth of the Federal Income Tax
• Chapter 16: What Have We Learned from All This?
• Postscript
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Index