Politics without parties -- The rich and the well born take charge -- Monocrats and Jacobins -- Agrarian liberalism in the saddle -- Mr. Madison's war and Mr. Monroe's era of good feelings -- The politics of sections in the 1820's -- The days of Andrew Jackson -- Whigs and Democrats, 1833-1843 -- Expansion and its consequences -- The Republican party is born -- The failure of parties -- The Civil War years -- The politics of vengeance -- The Grant era -- The great dispute and its aftermath -- In the doldrums : the eighties -- The tariff campaign -- The great agrarian failure -- The golden age of the grand old party -- The first Roosevelt -- The Progressive uprising -- The rule of Wilson -- The conservative reaction -- The Yankee politician and the great engineer -- The second Roosevelt -- The New Deal landslide -- That man again -- And again -- The great surprise -- I like Ike -- Ike again.