Includes bibliographical references (pages 618-624) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Class, tribe, and city -- Fraternity and the myths of identity -- Fraternity and modern politics -- The ambiguous ideal: fraternity in America -- Puritanism: the covenant of fraternity -- John Winthrop: the statesman -- The fruits of the Earth: Cain in New England -- The American Enlightenment -- The Jeffersonians -- The divided house -- Emerson and Thoreau: the all and the one -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: the citizen -- Herman Melville: the pilgrim -- The Gilded Age -- Whitman and Bellamy: nations of lovers -- Mark Twain: the teacher -- Old Americans and new -- Generations of the Lost -- Fearlessness and fear: the New Deal and after -- Native sons -- Epilogue: A note on generation and regeneration.
