The politicians & the egalitarians: the hidden history of American politics

I. Two keys to American history. The postpartisan style in American politics

America's forgotten egalitarian tradition

II. The politicians & the egalitarians. Thomas Paine : the origins of American egalitarianism

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Thomas Jefferson

John Quincy Adams : slavery's arch-enemy

John Brown : the temptation of terror

Abraham Lincoln : egalitarian politician

Democracy at Gettysburg, 1863

The steel town and the Gilded Age

W.E.B. Du Bois : a heroic education

Theodore Roosevelt : politics and folly

The liberals and the leftists

The Cold War and the perils of junk history

Lyndon B. Johnson : the triumph of politics.