[Table of contents]. Grover Cleveland : the mysterious case of the disappearing president -- I did not kill Armstrong : the chaotic early days of radio -- Woodrow Wilson : the Great Deceiver -- Streets of gold : Charles Ponzi and the American scheme -- I Love Lucy : the tragic genius of Desi Arnaz -- The muckraker : how a lost letter revealed Upton Sinclair's deception -- Alan Turing : how the father of the computer saved the world for democracy -- The Chameleon : Alger Hiss and the suspension of disbelief -- The City of Tomorrow : Walt Disney's last and lost dream -- Make it great, John : how Steve Jobs and John Lasseter changed history at Pixar

Glenn Beck provides stories of the people who [in his view] built America and the people who sought to destroy it