Contents Foreword by Doris Kearns GoodwinAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1900-1909Don P. Halsey Extols the Virtues of Great OratorySenator Albert J. Beveridge Defends America's Right to Subjugate "Savage" Peoples and Foreign GovernmentsSenator George F. Hoar Denounces American "Imperialism"Jane Addams Offers an Impassioned Tribute to George Washington on the Anniversary of His BirthdayTammany Hall Politician George Washington Plunkitt justifies "Honest Graft"President Theodore Roosevelt Condemns the "Muckrakers" Who Smear and Slander Honest MenThe Reverend Dr. Donald Sage Mackay Addresses the Question "Does God Care?" After an Earthquake Destroys San FranciscoW. E. B. Du Bois Issues a Call to Arms to His Fellow African Americans in the "Battle for Humanity"Booker T.
Washington Warns Against Confrontational Actions That May Do More Harm than GoodMark Twain Speaks to Misses Tewksbury's School for Girls on Smoking, Drinking, and LyingIda B. Wells-Barnett Calls Attention to the Epidemic of Lynchings and "Mob Murder" in AmericaChief Plenty Coup Confers with His Tribal Council on Achieving Peace Between the Great Tribes of the United StatesThe Reverend Reverdy Ransom on "White Supremacy" and an Upcoming Boxing Match Between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries1910-1919Anarchist Emma Goldman Derides Patriotism as a "Menace to Liberty"Union Activist Rose Schneiderman on the Deaths of 146 Workers in the Triangle Shirtwaist FireMrs. D. H. Bishop Offers a Harrowing Eyewitness Account of the Titanic's Last HoursHenry Ford Describes the Bonus He Has Provided His Workers and Its Intended Effects on Their Private LivesPresident Woodrow Wilson Requests a Declaration of War Against GermanyCarrie Chapman Catt Urges the U. S. Congress to Make One "Last, Hard Fight" for SuffragePresident Woodrow Wilson Enumerates the "Fourteen Points" That Will Ensure World Peace and "Justice to All Peoples and Nationalities"Ambassador James W. Gerard Encourages German Americans to Be Loyal to the United States -- or ElseSocialist Leader Eugene V.
Debs Defends Himself in Court Against Charges of "Disloyalty" and "Sedition"The Reverend Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Beseeches Americans to Accept President Wilson's Proposal for a "League of Nations"Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Rejects the League and Its "Mongrel Banner"New York Governor Alfred E. Smith Assails the "Contemptible" Publishing Tycoon William Randolph Hearst1920-1929Evangelical Preacher Billy Sunday Excoriates Alcohol as "God's Worst Enemy"Will Rogers Skewers Both the "Wets" and the "Drys" in the Prohibition DebateAttorney Edward Prindeville Demands Imprisonment for Eight Chicago White Sox Players Who Intentionally Lost the 1919 World SeriesHelen Keller Emphatically Endorses Communism and the Russian RevolutionMargaret Sanger Promotes Birth Control as an "Ethical Necessity for Humanity"President Warren G. Harding Marvels at the "Majesty" of Yellowstone National ParkBlack Leader Marcus Garvey Finds Common Ground with the Ku Klux KlanMaud Ballington Booth Expresses Her Belief That No Prisoner Is "Beyond Hope"Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow Implores the Court to Spare the Lives of Two Young MurderersWilliam Jennings Bryan Scoffs at Darwin's Theory of EvolutionDefense Attorney Dudley Field Malone Argues That Both "Theology and Science" Should Be Taught in Public SchoolsNicola Sacco, Before His Execution, Restates His InnocenceAl "Scarface" Capone Bids Farewell to Chicago and Laments Being Unappreciated for Showing Citizens a "Good Time"Republican Presidential Candidate Herbert Hoover Predicts the "Abolition of Poverty" in the United States1930-1939Oscar Ameringer Describes Intolerable Suffering Throughout the United States as a Result of the Great Depressionjustice Oliver Wendell Holmes, on His Ninetieth Birthday, Offers Profound Adv.