4 Becoming American

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 The Earliness of the Early Republic 9
6. 2 The Dialectic of Liberty 51
7. 3 The Commonalities of Common Sense 84
8. 4 Becoming American 120
9. 5 The Forgotten Publius 151
10. 6 Finding Rome in America 172
11. 7 Gabriel’s Rebellion 198
12. 8 Jefferson at Monticello 218
13. 9 Charity in the City of Brotherly Love 234
14. 10 The Last Early Republican Text 254
15. Epilogue 282
16. Notes 293
17. Index 353