Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-381) and index.
Contents
The founding fathers : an age of realism -- Thomas Jefferson : the aristocrat as Democrat -- Andrew Jackson and the rise of liberal capitalism -- John C. Calhoun : the Marx of the master class -- Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth -- Wendell Phillips : the patrician as agitator -- The spoilsmen : an age of cynicism -- William Jennings Bryan : the Democrat as revivalist -- Theodore Roosevelt : the conservative as progressive -- Woodrow Wilson : the conservative as liberal -- Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism -- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the patrician as opportunist.
