Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. Prologue 1
4. 1. Learning to Doubt 8
5. 2. “Everything about the Americans Is Extraordinary” 36
6. 3. A Crash Course in Democracy 70
7. 4. Writing America in Reverse Order: Prisons First, Then Freedom 101
8. 5. Testing American Equality against British Inequality 133
9. 6. When Political Theory Becomes Politics 162
10. 7. A Synthesis of Thought and Action 210
11. 8. Abolitionist, Nationalist, and Colonialist 242
12. 9. Crushed at the Helm 273
13. 10. A Revolution “Fully Formed from the Society That It Was to Destroy” 303
14. 11. Catholicity and Liberty 333
15. Epilogue 362
16. Note on Sources 367
17. Notes 373
18. Acknowledgments 433
19. Index 437