| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | Interpreting American Political Thought |
| 3 | The Protestant Background |
| 4 | Revolutionary America |
| 5 | Debating the Constitution |
| 6 | Jeffersonian Republicans v. Hamiltonian Federalists, with Madison in the Pivot |
| 7 | Individualism |
| 8 | Racism, Nativism, and Sexism in Antebellum America |
| 9 | A New Birth of Freedom? |
| 10 | The New Inegalitarians, or The Descent of Man |
| 11 | The Death of Freedom? |
| 12 | The Politics of Inclusion and the Politics of Difference |
| 13 | Markets, Morals, and America Abroad |