Republic Reborn

Steven Watts teaches intellectual and cultural history at the University of Missouri.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. The Birth of the Liberal Republic, 1790—1820Chapter 1. "A New Era Has Commenced in the United States"Chapter 2. John Taylor: "The Family of the Earth"Chapter 3. John Adams: "Our Country Is in Masquerade!"Chapter 4. Hugh Henry Brackenridge: Modern Chivalry and the Search for SelfChapter 5. War and the Wages of ChangePart II. Ambition and Civism: War and Social RegenerationChapter 6. Society and Self-Made Men: Dreams and DisquietudeChapter 7. Philip Freneau: "Besotted by Prosperity, Corrupted by Avarice, Abject from Luxury"Chapter 8. Henry Clay: "The Tranquil, Putrescent Pool of Ignominious Peace"Chapter 9. Charles J. Ingersoll: "Deep in the Slough of Faction"Chapter 10. War as Social Crusade: Civism and RenewalPart III. Religion and Repression: War and Early Capitalist CultureChapter 11. Con Men and Character: The Burden of Moral Free-AgencyChapter 12. Spencer Houghton Cone: "I Will Be a Living Worker in the World—I Will Play No More"Chapter 13. Benjamin Rush: "I Consider It as Possible to Convert Men into Republican Machines"Chapter 14. Mason Locke Weems: "Sacrificing Their Gold to Gamblers, Their Health to Harlots, and Their Glory to Grog"Chapter 15. War as Cultural Crusade: Self-Control and Civil ReligionPart IV. Founding Fathers and Wandering Sons: War and the Masks of PersonaeChapter 16. The Quiet Desperation of the Liberal SelfChapter 17. Charles Brockden Brown: "I am Conscious of a Double Mental Existence"Chapter 18. Alfred Brunson: "Either Rise to Distinction or Fall in the Attempt"Chapter 19. John Quincy Adams: "Two Objects the Nearest to my Heart, My Country and My Father"Chapter 20. War as Personal Quest: The Inner Healing of the Liberal IndividualPart V. Politics and Productivity: War and the Emergence of LiberalismChapter 21. The Crisis of RepublicanismChapter 22. Tensions in Political Economy: Producers and Home MarketsChapter 23. Strategies for Survival: From Enlightened to Energized RepublicanismChapter 24. The Liberal Republications: "Our New Era in our Politics"Chapter 25. The Liberal Impulse to War Part VI. The Republic Reordered, 1812—1815Chapter 26. The Crucible of WarChapter 27. The Vindication of God's RepublicChapter 28. The Triumph of Self-Made MenChapter 29. The Victory of LiberalismChapter 30. Into the FutureNotesIndex

As the national love feast with Oliver North reminded us, Americans have an abiding attraction to war and warriors... The Republic Reborn probes the historical roots of this attraction. William and Mary Quarterly