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Graph on p. 31 from Mark J. Landau, et al., “Deliver Us From Evil,” Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin (Vol. 80,No. 9) p. 1145. Copyright 2004 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.

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Table of Contents

FOREWORD AL FRANKEN, AMERICAN HERO BY ANONYMOUS

Book One The Triumph of Evil

1 Election Day November 2, 2004, 3:43 P . M .

2 How Bush Won: Fear

3 Bush’s Little Black Dress

4 How Bush Won: Smear

5 A Brief Recuperative Debunk Lenox Hill Hospital—June 17, 2005

6 With Friends Like Zell

7 How Bush Won: Queers

8 Al Franken Talks About God

Book Two Seeds of Collapse

9 “A Great Political Issue”

10 The Tom DeLay Saipan Sex Tour and Jack Abramoff Casino Getaway

11 Social Security: Franni vs. Bush

12 Plan of Attack— Attack the Planning

13 Mission Redacted Off the Coast of San Diego—May 1, 2003

14 Werewolves of Washington

Epilogue The Resurrection of Hope

15 A Letter to My Grandchildren October 2, 2015

NOTES AND SOURCES

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS