Don't Tread on Me A 400-Year History of America at War, from Indian Fighting to Terrorist Hunting

by Crocker, H.W.

• ISBN13: 9781400053643
• ISBN10: 1400053641
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-27
• Publisher: Crown Forum

Summary

Don't Tread on Meis a sweeping, colorfuland controversialhistory of America's wars and foreign and military policy over the past four hundred years. Full of gripping battle scenes and contrarian arguments, this stirring book challenges Americans to rethink what they thought they knew about our nation at war.

Author Biography

H. W. Crocker III is the author of Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church and Robert E. Lee on Leadership: Executive Lessons in Character, Courage, and Vision, as well as the prizewinning comic novel The Old Limey. He has worked as a journalist, a speechwriter for the governor of California, and a book editor. He lives near the battlefields of northern Virginia.

Table of Contents

Prologue: The Summons of the Trumpet	p. 1
The Gentle Art of Scalping	p. 5
Wolfe's Triumph and Pontiac's Rebellion	p. 22
"Disperse, Ye Rebels!"	p. 38
Forged in Battle: From 1776 to Valley Forge	p. 53
The World Turned Upside Down	p. 66
The Founders' Foreign Entanglements	p. 75
Madison's Wars	p. 90
The Guns of Old Hickory	p. 101
The Emerging Colossus	p. 116
Military Holiday in Mexico	p. 130
Wrecking the Furniture	p. 149
"War Is Cruelty, You Cannot Refine It"	p. 165
"War Means Fighting and Fighting Means Killing"	p. 176
"For Every Southern Boy...It's Still Not Yet Two O'Clock on That July Afternoon in 1863"	p. 190
"The Satisfaction That Proceeds from the Consciousness of Duty Faithfully Performed"	p. 210
"But Westward, Look! The Land Is Bright"	p. 228
"Half Devil and Half Child"	p. 244
"Come On, You Sons of Bitches! Do You Want to Live Forever?"	p. 253
A World Made Safe for War	p. 270
Infamy	p. 287
"The Great Crusade"	p. 306
"Another Marine Reporting for Duty, Sir. I've Spent My Time in Hell"	p. 320
"Retreat, Hell-We're Just Attacking in Another Direction"	p. 337
The Long Twilight Struggle	p. 358
America Resurgent	p. 381
Epilogue: "Go Tell the Spartans"	p. 398
Notes	p. 400
Select Bibliography	p. 431
Acknowledgments	p. 441
Index	p. 442
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