Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. CHAPTER 1. What It Meant to Be Liberal from Cicero to Lafayette 8
6. CHAPTER 2. The French Revolution and the Origins of Liberalism, 1789–1830 41
7. CHAPTER 3. Liberalism, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Social Question, 1830–48 88
8. CHAPTER 4. The Question of Character 129
9. CHAPTER 5. Caesarism and Liberal Democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck 156
10. CHAPTER 6. The Battle to Secularize Education 194
11. CHAPTER 7. Two Liberalisms: Old and New 220
12. CHAPTER 8. Liberalism Becomes the American Creed 245
13. Epilogue 265
14. Notes 279
15. Selected Bibliography 311
16. Index 333