Pt. 1: transportation revolution
DeWitt Clinton: prophet of internal improvements
Daniel Webster: economic nationalism continued
Qualified nationalism: a southern spokesman
Political problems: northern style
Political problems: southern style
A European observer and the Lowell "miracle"
The Unitarian sunrise: William Ellery Channing
The revivalist campfire: Charles G. Finney
A conservative indictment: Francis Lieber
Pt. 4: the spirit and practice of reform
The good soul: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education for conservatism: Horace Mann
Females, human rights, and reform
Establishment reform: African colonization
Colonization under fire: the abolitionist temper
Universal suffrage: divergent views
Pt. 6: the Jacksonians take over
The barbarians at the gates
Strengthening the presidency
Jackson's veto: No retreat
The enemy camp: calculations and daydreams
Van Buren's "divorce" of bank and state
The new Whigs: Weed, the operator
The new Whigs: Seward, the believer
An old fogy, northern style
A young fogy, southern style
Doubts of a German skeptic
Suggestions for further readings.
