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.
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