Liars (37 page)

“ ‘an industrial civilization demands' ”
David Henderson, “Richard Ely, Racist and State Worshipper,” Library of Economics and Liberty, May 14, 2011,
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2011/05/richard_ely_rac.html
.

“He campaigned to bar immigrants”
Thomas C. Leonard,
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 8.

“ ‘replace laissez-faire from within men's hearts' ”
Jonah Goldberg,
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
(New York: Crown Forum, 2009), p. 95.

“a new generation of social scientists”
Clifford F. Thines and Gary M. Pecquet, “The Shaping of a Future President's Economic Thought: Richard T. Ely and Woodrow Wilson and ‘The Hopkins',”
The Independent Review
15, no. 2 (Fall 2010),
https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_15_02_06_thies.pdf
.

“
Everything
could be improved”
Thomas C. Leonard,
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 9.

“ ‘pay to educate the Negro' ”
W. Barksdale Maynard, “More Than a Mere Student,”
Johns Hopkins Magazine
, September 2007,
http://pages.jh.edu/jhumag/0907web/wilson.html
.

“the best being allowed to reproduce”
Nathaniel Comfort, “Better Babies,” AEON, November 17, 2015,
https://aeon.co/essays/the-dream-of-designing-humans-has-a-long-and-peculiar-history
.

“ ‘galaxy of genius might we not create' ”
Nathaniel Comfort, “Better Babies,” AEON, November 17, 2015,
https://aeon.co/essays/the-dream-of-designing-humans-has-a-long-and-peculiar-history
.

“American Breeders Magazine”
Thomas C. Leonard,
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016).

“Major Leonard Darwin, Charles Darwin's son”
Stefani Engelstein, “Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade: 1870–1940” (exhibition, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 2011).

“ ‘remaining least valuable types' ”
Larry Stern, “Perspectives: What Is a Human Being,” (internet lecture, Collin College, McKinney, TX, 2013),
http://ftp.collin.edu/lstern/INTRO-WEB-UNIT1B-LECTURE.html
.

“ ‘to carry on the race' ”
Larry Stern, “Perspectives: What Is a Human Being,” (internet lecture, Collin College, McKinney, TX, 2013),
http://ftp.collin.edu/lstern/INTRO-WEB-UNIT1B-LECTURE.html
.

“ ‘grateful to you for writing it' ”
Larry Stern, “Perspectives: What Is a Human Being,” (internet lecture, Collin College, McKinney, TX, 2013),
http://ftp.collin.edu/lstern/INTRO-WEB-UNIT1B-LECTURE.html
.

“would come to know Adolf Hitler's name”
Edwin Black, “Hitler's Debt to America,”
The Guardian
, February 5, 2004,
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/feb/06/race.usa
.

“ ‘something to be achieved' ”
Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West, eds.,
Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding
(Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007).

“build a kingdom of heaven on earth”
Thomas C. Leonard,
Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), p. 12.

“create a “sober and pure world' ”
Ian Tyrrell,
Woman's World/Woman's Empire
(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010).

“give debt relief by coining silver”
Michael Kazin,
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
(New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006), p. 26.

“Dubbed ‘hayseeds' and ‘anarchists' ”
Richard Franklin Bensel,
Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 14.

“voice their concerns when he addressed the delegates”
Richard Franklin Bensel,
Passion and Preferences: William Jennings Bryan and the 1896 Democratic National Convention
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 183.

“the ice trade, a booming business on the eastern seaboard”
Robert C. Kennedy, “Hunting the Octopus,”
On This Day
(blog),
The New York Times
, October 6, 2001,
https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/1006.html
.

“ ‘We want something to eat' ”
Margaret Sanger,
Margaret Sanger; An Autobiography
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938), p. 32,
https://archive.org/details/margaretsangerau1938sang
.

“ ‘Toss! Beauty!' ”
Margaret Sanger,
Margaret Sanger; An Autobiography
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938), p. 32,
https://archive.org/details/margaretsangerau1938sang
.

“ ‘under government medical protection and segregate . . . ' ”
Margaret Sanger, “My Way to Peace,”
The Margaret Sanger Papers
, Library of Congress., Library of Congress Microfilm 130:198, 1931,
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=129036.xml
.

“a policy of ‘race improvement' ”
Paul Kengor, “Race and Margaret Sanger,”
The American Spectator
, September 14, 2015,
http://spectator.org/articles/64049/race-and-margaret-sanger
.

“is to kill it”
Margaret Sanger,
Margaret Sanger; An Autobiography
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1938), p. 32,
https://archive.org/details/margaretsangerau1938sang
.

“ ‘those who should never have been born' ”
Kevin Vance, “Sec. Clinton Stands by Her Praise of Eugenicist Margaret Sanger,”
The Weekly Standard
, April 15, 2009,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/sec.-clinton-stands-by-her-praise-of-eugenicist-margaret-sanger/article/28444
.

“ ‘her courage, her tenacity, her vision' ”
Kevin Vance, “Sec. Clinton Stands by Her Praise of Eugenicist Margaret Sanger,”
The Weekly Standard
, April 15, 2009,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/sec.-clinton-stands-by-her-praise-of-eugenicist-margaret-sanger/article/28444
.

CHAPTER 2: FIRST WAVE: WILSON, THE PHILOSOPHER PRESIDENT

“
Titanic
was built and marketed as ‘unsinkable' ”
Mary Karmelek, “2 Ships Passing in the Fog: 35 Years before the Titanic, Uneasy Sailing on the White Star Line,”
Anecdotes from the Archive
(blog),
The Scientific American
, May 31, 2013,
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anecdotes-from-the-archive/2-ships-passing-in-the-fog-35-years-before-the-titanic-uneasy-sailing-on-the-white-star-line/
.

“ ‘the furthest-reaching disaster' ”
Wyn Craig Wade,
The Titanic:
End of a Dream
(New York: Penguin Books, 1992), p. 98.

“ ‘the gaining represents benefit to the community' ”
“The New Nationalism,” Theodore Roosevelt, Osawatomie, KS, August 31, 1910.
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism
.

“ ‘general right of the community to regulate its use' ”
“The New Nationalism,” Theodore Roosevelt, Osawatomie, KS, August 31, 1910,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism
.

“ ‘as the steward of the public welfare' ”
“The New Nationalism,” Theodore Roosevelt, Osawatomie, KS. August 31, 1910,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism
.

“ ‘the foundation of every other relationship' ”
Ray Stannard Baker, ed.,
The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, Volume 1
(New York: Harper & Bros., 1925), p. 432.

“Yes, even Jimmy Carter”
“Washington, Lincoln Most Popular Presidents: Nixon, Bush Least Popular,” Rasmussen Reports, July 4, 2007,
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/people2/2007/washington_lincoln_most_popular_presidents_nixon_bush_least_popular
.

“routinely rank Wilson among the top ten”
“List of Presidential Rankings,” NBC News, February 16, 2009,
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29216774/ns/politics-white_house/t/list-presidential-rankings/#.V0Sb0OcrIy6
. Brandon Rottinghaus and Justin Vaughn, “New Ranking of U.S. Presidents Puts Lincoln at No. 1, Obama at 18; Kennedy Judged Most Overrated,”
Monkey Cage
(blog),
Washington Post
, February 16, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/02/16/new-ranking-of-u-s-presidents-puts-lincoln-1-obama-18-kennedy-judged-most-over-rated/
.

“rated Wilson behind only Lincoln, Washington”
“A Comparison of Polls of Presidential Greatness,” Syracuse University, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://classes.maxwell.syr.edu/hst341/presgreatness.htm
.

“ ‘Today's concerns shape our views of the past' ”
Kenneth T. Walsh, “Historians Rank George W. Bush Among Worst Presidents,”
U.S. News and World Report
, February 7, 2009,
http://www.usnews.com/news/history/articles/2009/02/17/historians-rank-george-w-bush-among-worst-presidents
.

“ ‘Woodrow Wilson was one of America's greatest Presidents' ”
“Woodrow Wilson: Life in Brief,” Miller Center, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/wilson-life-in-brief
.

“one of America's greatest presidents”
“American Experience: Woodrow Wilson,” PBS, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/index.html
.

“even likened him to Jesus Christ”
“David Lloyd George,” New World Encyclopedia, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/David_Lloyd_George
.

“ ‘than an institution devoted to the highest ideals' ”
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Statement by President Upon Signing Bill to Establish a National Memorial to Woodrow Wilson, October 25, 1968,” in
Lyndon B. Johnson: 1968–1969 (in two books) containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president [book 2]
(Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Library, 2005), p. 1070, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/ppotpus/4731573.1968.002/376?rgn=full+text;view=image
.

“ ‘but He Deserves Our Understanding' ”
Richard Cohen, “Woodrow Wilson Was Racist, but He Deserves Our Understanding,”
Washington Post
, November 23, 2015,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/taking-woodrow-wilson-out-of-context/2015/11/23/5eb509ee-920c-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html
.

“he grew up mostly in Georgia and South Carolina”
“Biography,” The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/about/biography
.

“Confederates like the Wilsons”
“Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the Presidency.” Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, accessed June 8, 2016,
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/wilson-life-before-the-presidency
.

“through the streets in chains”
Josephus Daniels,
The Life of Woodrow Wilson
, (Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1924), p. 37.

“Wilson did not learn to read or write until he was nearly ten”
“American Experience: Woodrow Wilson,” PBS, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/index.html
.

“he received his doctorate in political science and history”
“Biography,” The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://www.woodrowwilson.org/about/biography
.

“ ‘Woodrow Wilson, United States Senator' ”
E.S., “The President,”
The Atlantic Monthly
, March 1913, p. 289, accessed May 24, 2016,
http://www.unz.org/Pub/AtlanticMonthly-1913mar-00289?View=PDF
. Josephus Daniels,
The Life of Woodrow Wilson
(Chicago: The John C. Winston Company, 1924), p. 38.

“early progressive economist Richard Ely”
Jonah Goldberg,
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 95.

“ ‘critical to society's evolution' ”
Jonah Goldberg,
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
(New York: Crown, 2009), p. 84. Note: Goldberg also reminds us of Wilson's admiration for Lincoln, which may seem odd, considering Wilson's Confederate sympathies. “[W]hat appealed to Wilson about the Great Emancipator,” Goldberg notes, “was Lincoln's ability to impose his will on the country. Lincoln was a centralizer, a modernizer who used his power to forge a new, united nation. In other words, Wilson admired Lincoln's means—suspension of habeas corpus, the draft, and the campaigns of the radical Republicans after the war—far more than he liked his ends.”