Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Part 1 Making Renegades into Americans
1 Drunkards, Laggards, Prostitutes, Pirates, and Other Heroes of the American Revolution 3
2 The Freedom of Slavery 39
3 The Slavery of Freedom 77
4 Whores and the Origins of Women's Liberation 101
Part 2 How White People Lost Their Rhythm
5 A Rhythmless Nation 127
6 From White Chimps to Yankee Doodles: The Irish 140
7 The Jew was a Negro 160
8 Italian Americans: Out of Africa 181
Part 3 Fighting for Bad Freedom
9 Shopping: The Real American Revolution 207
10 How Gangsters Made America a Better Place 229
11 "Behold a Dictator": Fascism and the New Deal 240
12 Just How Popular was World War II? 270
Part 4 Which Side are you on?
13 How Juvenile Delinquents Won the Cold War 285
14 "A Process of Self-Purification": The Civil Rights Movement's Attack on African Americans 295
15 Gay Liberation, American Liberation 324
16 Almost Free: The Promise and Tragedy of Rednecks and Hippies 332
Acknowledgments 343
Sources 345
Permissions 363
Index 365