V. The American, the New Man: The Image of a New Nation

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Contents xi
5. I. Introduction xv
6. Part One. Ideology and American Nationalism
7. II. Ideology and the American Way of Life 17
8. III. National Unity: the American Interpretation 31
9. IV. The First National Creed: American Whiggism 49
10. V. The American, the New Man: The Image of a New Nation 71
11. VI. "Natural Society"—the Evolution of a Social Ideal 90
12. VII. Free Society—the Formulation of the Jeffersonian Social Ideal 123
13. VIII. The Jeffersonian Ideal—Social and Political Democracy 158
14. Part Two. Individualism and the Free Society — the American Quest for Utopia
15. IX. A European Concept Crosses the Atlantic 183
16. X. Individualism and Socialism: the Birth of Two New Concepts 211
17. XI. Social Criticism in America 235
18. XII. Foundations of the American Ideal of Individualism 246
19. XIII. Utopian Individualism: Theory and Practice 277
20. XIV. The Great Debate on the Nature of the American Ideal 297
21. XV. Epilogue 323
22. Notes 351
23. Index 437