This impeccably researched work chronicles the decisions reached by Democratic Presidents prior to ordering American citizens to capture, wound, and kill their enemy. These men - particularly Wilson, Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson with the inclusion of Civil War leaders and one Republican, Eisenhower, - are individually examined. The reader, the hope is, will discover that these several chapters all reflect, to no uncertain degree, not only the Democratic War Party Policy, but also its "liberal theory of life."