Wills, Garry,  1934- <br/><br/>
A necessary evil :  A history of American distrust of government / 
Garry Wills 
 - New York :  Simon & Schuster,  1999 
 - 365 p. 
<br/><br/>1. Revolutionary myths.  Minutemen -- Term limits -- 2. Constitutional myths.  Sovereign states -- Checking efficiency -- Co-equal branches -- The uses of faction -- Bill of Rights -- No standing army -- 3. Nullifiers.  John Taylor of Caroline : father of nullification -- Jefferson : prophet of nullification -- Madison : abettor of nullification -- Nullification North : Hartford Convention -- Nullification South : John C. Calhoun -- -- Academic nullifiers -- 4. Seceders.  Civil War -- 5. Insurrectionists.  From Daniel Shays to Timothy McVeigh -- Academic insurrectionists -- 6. Vigilantes.  Groups : from regulators to clinic bombings -- Individuals : frontier -- Individuals : NRA -- 7. Withdrawers.  Individuals : from Thoreau to Mencken -- Groups : from Brook Farm to hippie communes -- 8. Disobeyers.  From Dr. King to SDS -- 9. A necessary good.  The uses of government -- The uses of fear. 
<br/><br/> The author blames American's long-standing mistrust of government on a misreading of history, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the Founding Fathers. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0684844893 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dissenters--History.--United States<br/>Government, Resistance to--History.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>002 E 183  / W741n 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973