Dinesh D'Souza - America: Imagine a World without Her (34 page)

18.
      
Frederick Douglass, “What the Black Man Wants,” speech to the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, April 1865, lib.rochester.edu.

19.
      
Zora Neale Hurston,
Dust Tracks on a Road
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1991), pp. 206–8; Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” in Henry Louis Gates, ed.,
Bearing Witness
(New York: Pantheon, 1991), p. 16.

Chapter 9: “Thank You, Mister Jefferson”

1.
        
Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream,” August 28, 1863,
ushistory.org
.

2.
        
Joel Williamson,
The Crucible of Race
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 254.

3.
        
Jennifer Roback, “The Political Economy of Segregation,”
Journal of Economic History
46 (1986), pp. 893–917.

4.
        
Thomas Sowell,
Markets and Minorities
(New York: Basic Books, 1981), p. 61.

5.
        
See, e.g., “The Rise of Intermarriage,” Pew Research, February 16, 2012,
pewsocialtrends.org
.

6.
        
Orlando Patterson, “Race, Gender and Liberal Fallacies,”
New York Times
, October 20, 1991.

7.
        
Philip S. Foner, ed.,
W. E. B. Du Bois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses 1890–1919
(New York: Pathfinder Books, 1970), p. 4.

8.
        
Booker T. Washington,
Up From Slavery
(New York: Penguin Books, 1986), pp. 41, 208, 229; Booker T. Washington, “The Awakening of the Negro,”
The Atlantic Monthly
, September 1896.

9.
        
Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois,
The Negro in the South
(New York: George W. Jacobs, 1907), pp. 181–82; E. Davidson Washington, ed.,
Selected Speeches of Booker T. Washington
(New York: Doubleday, 1932), p. 237.

10.
      
Cited in James M. Washington, ed.,
A Testament of Hope
(San Francisco: Harper, 1986), pp. 212, 246, 489–90.

11.
      
Jacqueline Moore,
Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), p. 117.

Chapter 10: The Virtue of Prosperity

1.
        
James Boswell,
The Life of Johnson
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1933), Vol. I, p. 567.

2.
        
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” Annals of America, 1968,
learner.org
,
http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/corporations/docs/turner.html
.

3.
        
Barack Obama Sr., “Problems Facing Our Socialism,”
East Africa Journal
, July 1965.

4.
        
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event in Roanoke, Virginia,” July 13, 2012; “Obama to Business Owners: You Didn’t Build That,” Fox News, July 16, 2012.

5.
        
Elizabeth Warren, “There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own,” CBS News, September 22, 2011.

6.
        
“Greed,” ABC News Special Report by John Stossel, February 3, 1998.

7.
        
Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), Vol. I, p. 18.

8.
        
Cited in Gertrude Himmelfarb,
The Idea of Poverty
(New York: Knopf, 1984), p. 28.

9.
        
Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
, Book IV, Chapter 2,
adamsmith.org
.

10.
      
Adam Smith,
The Wealth of Nations
(New York: Penguin, 1999), p. 117, 443; Eugene Kamenka, ed.,
The Portable Karl Marx
(New York: Penguin, 1983), p. 177.

11.
      
Kamenka,
The Portable Karl Marx
, p. 541.

12.
      
Ayn Rand,
The Virtue of Selfishness
(New York: Signet, 1964), pp. vii–xi, 17, 27, 31.

13.
      
Adam Smith,
A Theory of Moral Sentiments
(Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982), p. 25.

14.
      
Albert O. Hirschman,
The Passions and the Interests
(Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1977), pp. 32, 73, 132–33.

Chapter 11: Who’s Exploiting Whom?

1.
        
Remarks by the president on August 15, 2011; “Teachers Paid on Par with Doctors?” August 19, 2011,
factcheck.org
; Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 62.

2.
        
Eugene Kamenka, ed.,
The Portable Karl Marx
(New York: Penguin, 1983), pp. 412–13, 415.

3.
        
Friedrich Hayek,
The Constitution of Liberty
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), pp. 94–95.

4.
        
“Babe Ruth,”
baseballreference.com
.

5.
        
Richard Wolff,
Occupy the Economy
(San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2012), p. 30.

6.
        
Thorstein Veblen,
The Theory of the Leisure Class
(New York: Penguin, 1994), p. 110.

7.
        
Branko Milanovic,
The Haves and the Have-Nots
(New York: Basic Books, 2011), p. 117.

8.
        
Tom Wolfe, “Aspirations of an American Century,” speech to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, reprinted in
Advertising Age
, June 12, 1989.

9.
        
Robert Frank, “U.S. Is Minting Almost All of the World’s Millionaires,” October 9, 2013,
cnbc.com
.

10.
      
“Life Expectancy Table,” 2011,
data.worldbank.org
; “Life Expectancy in the USA, 1900–1998,” demog.berkeley.edu.

11.
      
Joseph Schumpeter,
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1976), p. 67.

12.
      
Hayek,
The Constitution of Liberty
, p. 44.

Chapter 12: A Global Success Story

1.
        
Kwame Nkrumah,
Neocolonialism
(New York: International Publishers, 1965), p, 52.

2.
        
P. T. Bauer,
Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 67–68; P. T. Bauer,
Reality and Rhetoric
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), pp. 2, 24.

3.
        
Karl Marx, “The British Rule in India,” June 10, 1853; “The Future Results of British Rule in India,” July 22, 1853; in Eugene Kamenka, ed.,
The Portable Karl Marx
(New York: Penguin, 1983), pp. 329–41.

4.
        
V. I. Lenin,
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
(London: Pluto Press, 1996).

5.
        
Manmohan Singh, address by the prime minister at Oxford University, July 8, 2005,
http://www.hindu.com/nic/0046/pmspeech.htm
.

6.
        
Chinweizu,
The West and the Rest of Us
(New York: Vintage, 1975), p. 256.

7.
        
Kishore Mahbubani,
The New Asian Hemisphere
(New York: Public Affairs, 2008), p. 56.

Chapter 13: Empire of Liberty

1.
        
Cited by Chalmers Johnson,
Nemesis
, p. 75,
books.google.com
.

2.
        
Douglas Feith and Seth Cropsey, “The Obama Doctrine Defined,”
Commentary
, July 2011,
commentarymagazine.com
.

3.
        
Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, James Lyons and James Woolsey, “Obama’s Nuclear Zero Rhetoric is Dangerous,” April 1, 2013,
canadafreepress.com
.

4.
        
“Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance,” Arms Control Association, November 2013,
armscontrol.org
.

5.
        
See, e.g., letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, April 27, 1809.

6.
        
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 316–17.

7.
        
“Margaret Thatcher, RIP,” April 18, 2013,
nationalreview.com
.

8.
        
Colin Powell, Remarks at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2003.

Chapter 14: The Biggest Thief of All

1.
        
Cited by Richard McKenzie,
Bound to be Free
(Palo Alto: Hoover Press, 1982), p. 90.

2.
        
William Shakespeare,
Othello
, Act 5, Scene 1, shakespeare.mit.edu.

3.
        
Abraham Lincoln, “Speech at Chicago,” July 10, 1858,
journalofamericanhistory.org
.

4.
        
Eugene Kamenka, ed.,
The Portable Karl Marx
(New York: Penguin Books, 1983), p. 410.

5.
        
Robert Reich,
Aftershock
(New York: Vintage, 2013), p. 131; Richard Wolff,
Occupy the Economy
(San Francisco: City Lights, 2012), pp. 42–43.

Chapter 15: American Panopticon

1.
        
Franz Kafka,
The Trial
(New York: Tribeca Books, 2011), p. 1.

2.
        
Mark Landler and Helene Cooper, “Obama Seeks a Course of Pragmatism,”
New York Times
, April 3, 2009,
nytimes.com
.

3.
        
Jeremy Bentham,
The Panopticon Writings
(London: Verso, 2011).

4.
        
Ryan Gallagher, “Edward Snowden: The Man Behind the NSA Leaks,” Slate, June 9, 2013,
slate.com
.

5.
        
James Bamford, “They Know Much More Than You Think,”
New York Review of Books
, August 15, 2013,
nybooks.com
; Ryan Lizza, “State of Deception,”
The New Yorker
, December 16, 2013, pp. 48, 55.

6.
        
Charlie Savage, “Judge Questions Legality of NSA Phone Records,”
New York Times
, December 17, 2013, pp. A-1, A-17.

7.
        
Peter Nicholas and Jess Bravin, “Obama’s Civil Liberties Record Questioned,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 6, 2013,
wsj.com
.

8.
        
George Orwell,
1984
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1983), pp. 2, 138, 183.

9.
        
Ibid., p. 239.

10.
      
Bradley Hope and Damian Paletta, “S & P Chief Says Geithner Warned About U.S. Downgrade,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 21, 2014,
wsj.com
.

11.
      
Harvey Silverglate,
Three Felonies a Day
(New York: Encounter Books, 2011), pp. xviii–xix, xxv, xxxvii, l, 28, 264–65, 267.

Chapter 16: Decline Is a Choice

1.
        
Martin Jacques,
When China Rules the World
(New York: Penguin Books, 2012), p. 12.

2.
        
Angus Maddison,
The World Economy
(Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute Press, 2007).

3.
        
John Pomfret, “Newly Powerful China Defies Western Nations with Remarks, Policies,”
The Washington Post
, March 15, 2010.

4.
        
Jacques,
When China Rules the World
, p. 128.

5.
        
Ibid., p. 341.

INDEX

A

Abel,
99

abortion,
22
,
73

Acuna, Rodolfo,
108

Adams, John Quincy,
207

affirmative action,
16
,
22
,
146

Africa,
9
,
51
,
59–60
,
122
,
125–27
,
134
,
138
,
146
,
150–51
,
188
,
191–93
,
225
,
251
,
253