Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Foreword xv
5. 1. What Is the Promise of American Life? 1
6. 2. The Federalists and the Republicans 33
7. 3. The Democrats and the Whigs 64
8. 4. Slavery and American Nationality 89
9. 5. The Contemporary Situation and Its Problems 123
10. 6. Reform and the Reformers 173
11. 7. Reconstruction: Its Conditions and Purposes 216
12. 8. Nationality and Democracy: National Origins 264
13. 9. The American Democracy and Its National Principles 326
14. 10. A National Foreign Policy 355
15. 11. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 1 386
16. 12. Problems of Reconstruction: Part 2 431
17. 13. Conclusions: The Individual and the National Purposes 490
18. Index 559