Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Illustrations xiii
5. [ I ] No Statues or Monuments 1
6. [ II ] John Adams among His Books 14
7. [ III ] A dams’ s Political Philosophy 26
8. [ IV ] Bolingbroke, the Ishmael of His Age 49
9. [ V ] Rousseau and the Man of Nature 80
10. [ VI ] Frederick, Voltaire and d’ Alembert 99
11. [ VII ] The Communism of the Abbé de Mably 116
12. [ VIII ] Turgot’s Attack on the American Constitutions 139
13. [ IX ] The Composition of Adams’ s Defence 155
14. [ Χ ] Lessons from the Civil Wars of France 165
15. [ XI ] The French Revolution 180
16. [ XII ] Condorcet and the Idea of Progress 235
17. [ XIII ] Napoleon’ s Bid for a Continental Alliance 259
18. [ XIV ] Dr, Priestley and Other English Divines 280
19. [ XV ] The Constant Reader 300
20. NOTES 303
21. INDEX 353