The Man Who Lived Dangerously -- The Man Who Loved to Legislate-But Hated to Govern -- Should This Constitution be Ratified? -- The President and His Partner Begin Making History -- The Birth of an Ideologue -- The President Takes Charge -- The Secretary of State from Paris -- Mr. Jefferson Wins a Victory That He Soon Regrets -- From Disagreements to the First Divide -- When Best-Laid Plans Go Wrong -- The President-and Secretary of State-Make Up Their Minds -- The Problems of the Secretary of State's Polar Star -- Can America Remain Neutral in a Warring World? -- Challenging Old Man Washington -- The Secretary of State Calls It Quits -- Shooting Wars Loom on Several Doorsteps -- Will Whiskey Rebels Unravel the Union? -- A Master Politician Takes Charge -- The End of Three Friendships -- A Very Political Farewell -- Martha Washington Sends a Message -- The Vice President as Party Boss -- The Ultimate Divide -- The Death That Changed Everything -- The Race to Make the Vice First -- The UnWashington President in His Federal Village -- How a Mosquito Rescued Thomas Jefferson's Presidency -- An Empire vs. A Constitution -- The Voters Speak the Language of Praise -- The Improbably Failures of a Triumphant Second Term -- The President vs. The Chief Justice -- The Final Defeat of an UnWashington President -- The Transformation of James Madison -- Epilogue.
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