From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
The true pain: from ruin to revolution
The true Paine: the "happy something" of America
The birth of a new age: the Enlightenment and the cause of "independency"
Of democracy and demagogues: ancient Athens and the rise of the demos
Philadelphia: the American Revolution and "the inclemencies of the season"
Paris: the French Revolution and the razor of the republic
Paine's bridge: revolution and governance in an age of rage
The American Jacobin: the return of the bourgeois revolutionary
Why big, fierce rights are rare: the importance of "rights talk" in confusing times
Adam Smith and the liberty-enhancing economy
Living freely in the Twenty-first century.
