Broken Promises of America Vol. 1 : At Home and Abroad, Past and Present, an Encyclopedia for Our Times: A-L

by Dowd, Douglas F.; Zinn, Howard

• ISBN13: 9781567513134
• ISBN10: 1567513131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-15
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

This is the next People's History of the United States.

Table of Contents

Volume 1
Introduction to Doug Dowd by Howard Zinn	10	(3)
Preface	13	(7)
Abbreviations	20	(2)
Foreword	22	(9)
The Topics: A to F (Volume 1)
advertising/public relations	31	(5)
affirmative action	36	(5)
Africa	41	(4)
Angola	42	(1)
The Congo	43	(2)
alienation (see dehumanization)
anti-colonial imperialism	45	(1)
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)	46	(2)
arrogance	48	(4)
Asia	52	(33)
Afghanistan	52	(2)
Cambodia	54	(3)
China	57	(1)
Indonesia	58	(2)
Japan	60	(3)
Korea	63	(1)
Laos	64	(2)
Okinawa	66	(1)
Philippine Islands	67	(2)
Taiwan (see China)
Vietnam	69	(16)
assassination	85	(1)
big business	86	(6)
boys and girls/men and women	92	(12)
buffalo	104	(2)
Bush I	106	(1)
Bush II
Himself	107	(7)
His Administration's Policies	114	(2)
His Team
Abrams, Eliot (+ Poindexter, Negroponte, Reich, Pardo-Maurer)	116	(2)
Ashcroft, John	118	(4)
Card, Andrew, Jr.	122	(1)
Cheney, Dick	122	(3)
Fleischer, Ari	125	(1)
O'Neill, Paul/Snow, John	125	(2)
Powell, Colin	127	(1)
Rice, Condoleezza	128	(1)
Rove, Karl	129	(2)
Rumsfeld, Donald	131	(1)
White, Thomas	132	(1)
Wolfowitz, Paul	132
campaign financing (see lobbyists)
Camp X-Ray (see Latin America.... Cuba)
capitalism	133	(11)
carpet bombing (see collateral damage)
cars	144	(6)
Caspian Basin (see Asia...Afghanistan, oil)
CEOs	150	(7)
Chicago, 1968	157	(2)
CIA	159	(3)
class	162	(4)
Cold War	166	(15)
collateral damage	181	(4)
colonialism (see anti-colonial imperialism and imperialism)
commodification	185	(1)
competition	186	(6)
Compromise of 1877 (see racism, slavery)
conformity	192	(3)
consumerism	195	(5)
corporate welfare	200	(3)
corruption	203	(5)
credit cards (see debt)
crime and punishment	208	(5)
death penalty	213	(3)
debt	216	(10)
decadence	226	(3)
deficits and surpluses	229	(6)
dehumanization/alienation	235	(4)
deliberate obsolescence (see cars, waste)
deregulation	239	(10)
dictators	249	(5)
discrimination (see racism, boys and girls...)
Disney, Walt (see FBI, Reagan)
domino theory (see Asia...Vietnam)
double standard (see arrogance, Cold War)
downsizing/outsourcing (see big business, globalization)
Dust Bowl	254	(3)
"earnings"	257	(1)
economics	258	(14)
education	272	(10)
embedded	282	(2)
emulation	284	(6)
Enron (see deregulation, oil)
entertainment (see TV, media)
environment	290	(22)
Europe	312	(15)
France	314	(1)
Germany	315	(2)
Greece	317	(1)
Italy	318	(1)
Spain	319	(1)
Turkey	320	(1)
USSR/Russia	321	(6)
exploitation	327	(4)
Exxon-Mobil (see oil, cars, big business)
farmers	331	(5)
fascism	336	(7)
FBI	343	(3)
financialization	346	(9)
free trade/free markets	355	(5)
Friedman, Milton (see commodification, deregulation, privatization)
Bibliography	360	(20)
About the Author	380