From the Book - First edition.
I. Two keys to American history
The postpartisan style in American politics
America's forgotten egalitarian tradition
II. The politicians & the egalitarians
Thomas Paine : the origins of American egalitarianism
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
John Quincy Adams : slavery's arch-enemy
John Brown : the temptation of terror
Abraham Lincoln : egalitarian politician
Democracy at Gettysburg, 1863
The steel town and the Gilded Age
W.E.B. Du Bois : a heroic education
Theodore Roosevelt : politics and folly
The liberals and the leftists
The Cold War and the perils of junk history
Lyndon B. Johnson : the triumph of politics.
