Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Birth of the Liberal Republic, 1790-1820
Chapter 1. A New Era Has Commenced in the United States
Chapter 2. John Taylor: The Family of the Earth
Chapter 3. John Adams: Our Country Is in Masquerade!
Chapter 4. Hugh Henry Brackenridge: Modern Chivalry and the Search for Self
Chapter 5. War and the Wages of Change
Part II. Ambition and Civism: War and Social Regeneration
Chapter 6. Society and Self-Made Men: Dreams and Disquietude
Chapter 7. Philip Freneau: Besotted by Prosperity, Corrupted by Avarice, Abject from Luxury
Chapter 8. Henry Clay: The Tranquil, Putrescent Pool of Ignominious Peace
Chapter 9. Charles J. Ingersoll: Deep in the Slough of Faction
Chapter 10. War as Social Crusade: Civism and Renewal
Part III. Religion and Repression: War and Early Capitalist Culture
Chapter 11. Con Men and Character: The Burden of Moral Free-Agency
Chapter 12. Spencer Houghton Cone: I Will Be a Living Worker in the World-I Will Play No More
Chapter 13. Benjamin Rush: I Consider It as Possible to Convert Men into Republican Machines
Chapter 14. Mason Locke Weems: Sacrificing Their Gold to Gamblers, Their Health to Harlots, and Their Glory to Grog
Chapter 15. War as Cultural Crusade: Self-Control and Civil Religion
Part IV. Founding Fathers and Wandering Sons: War and the Masks of Personae
Chapter 16. The Quiet Desperation of the Liberal Self
Chapter 17. Charles Brockden Brown: I am Conscious of a Double Mental Existence
Chapter 18. Alfred Brunson: Either Rise to Distinction or Fall in the Attempt
Chapter 19. John Quincy Adams: Two Objects the Nearest to my Heart, My Country and My Father
Chapter 20. War as Personal Quest: The Inner Healing of the Liberal Individual
Part V. Politics and Productivity: War and the Emergence of Liberalism
Chapter 21. The Crisis of Republicanism
Chapter 22. Tensions in Political Economy: Producers and Home Markets
Chapter 23. Strategies for Survival: From Enlightened to Energized Republicanism
Chapter 24. The Liberal Republications: Our New Era in our Politics
Chapter 25. The Liberal Impulse to War
Part VI. The Republic Reordered, 1812-1815
Chapter 26. The Crucible of War
Chapter 27. The Vindication of God's Republic
Chapter 28. The Triumph of Self-Made Men
Chapter 29. The Victory of Liberalism
Chapter 30. Into the Future
Notes
Index
