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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America | |
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| From Colony to Nation (1608-1776) | |
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| John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles of Puritan Political Thought | |
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| Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion | |
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| Thomas Paine: The American Radical | |
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| Benjamin Franklin: A Model American and an American Model | |
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| The New Republic (1776-1820) | |
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| Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: The Political Thought of George Washington | |
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| John Adams and the Republic of Laws | |
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| Legitimate Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson | |
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| The Political Science of James Madison | |
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| Alexander Hamilton on the Strategy of American Free Government | |
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| America's Modernity: James Wilson on Natural Law and Natural Rights | |
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| Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer | |
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| The New Constitutionalism of Publius | |
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| Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John Marshall | |
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| A Divided Nation (1820-1865) | |
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| John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice | |
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| Union and Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster | |
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| Henry Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise | |
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| John C. Calhoun and the Reexamination of American Democracy | |
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| The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper: Nature and Nature's God | |
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| Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau | |
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| "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery | |
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| Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman | |
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| Growth of an Empire (1865-1945) | |
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| Feminism as an American Project: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton | |
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| Mark Twain on the American Character | |
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| Pricking the Bubble of Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner | |
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| Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible" | |
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| Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W. E. B. Du Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis | |
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| Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith | |
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| Jane Addams as Civic Theorist: Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims | |
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| Herbert Croly's Progressive "Liberalism" | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt and the Stewardship of the American Presidency | |
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| Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism | |
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| The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis | |
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| John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism | |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights | |
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| New Challenges at Home and Abroad (1945-present) | |
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| Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism | |
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| Walker Percy's American Thomism | |
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| Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism | |
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| The Two Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr. | |
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| Malcolm X: From Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher | |
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| Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century | |
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| John Rawls's "Democratic" Theory of Justice | |
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| Henry Kissinger: The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy | |
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| Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism | |
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| The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall | |
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| The Textualist Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Editors and Contributors | |