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| Introduction | |
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| Myths, Realities, and the Issues of the Founding Generation | |
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| The Myths | |
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| Myth: The Founding generation created a democracy | |
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| Myth: The Founding Fathers really believed everyone was equal | |
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| Myth: Slavery was a sin of the Southern founders | |
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| Myth: Paul Revere single-handedly warned the Boston countryside of the impending British invasion | |
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| Myth: Benjamin Franklin had thirteen to eighty illegitimate children! | |
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| Myth: Thomas Jefferson kept a concubine slave and fathered children with her! | |
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| Myth: Washington had an affair with his neighbor's wife! | |
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| Myth: Alexander Hamilton had a gay lover! | |
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| A Conservative Revolution | |
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| The Declaration of Independence | |
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| Who's sovereign now? | |
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| "Experience must be our only guide" | |
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| "The public mind... is extremely uneasy at the proposed change of government" | |
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| The Issues | |
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| Give me back my gun! | |
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| A godless society? | |
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| The states (and the people) are sovereign | |
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| A limited executive | |
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| Abolish the Fed! | |
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| A "president's" war? | |
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| "No Taxation without Representation!" | |
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| Who said that's unconstitutional? | |
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| John Adams is a war-mongering scoundrel! | |
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| Give me my welfare! | |
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| The Men The Big Six | |
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| George Washington | |
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| The first American hero | |
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| The Revolution | |
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| Duty calls | |
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| The last years | |
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| The Washington effect | |
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| Thomas Jefferson | |
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| Patriot | |
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| Diplomat and secretary of state | |
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| Retirement and vice president | |
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| The presidency | |
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| The Jeffersonian tradition | |
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| John Adams | |
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| The Revolution | |
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| "His rotundity" | |
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| The insecure president | |
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| Retirement | |
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| James Madison | |
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| "Father of the Constitution" | |
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| The Federal career | |
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| The fourth president | |
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| Death and legacy | |
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| Alexander Hamilton | |
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| The Revolution | |
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| The best government the country will permit | |
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| Secretary of the Treasury | |
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| Retirement and duel | |
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| Legacy | |
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| Benjamin Franklin | |
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| Cautious revolutionary | |
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| The man in the fur cap | |
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| The grandfather of the Republic | |
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| The Forgotten Founders | |
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| Samuel Adams | |
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| Firebrand | |
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| Anti-Federalist | |
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| Charles Carroll of Carrollton | |
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| Signer | |
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| Mild Federalist | |
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| George Clinton | |
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| Anti-Federalist governor | |
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| Vice President Clinton | |
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| A states' rights patriot | |
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| John Dickinson | |
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| "Penman of the Revolution" | |
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| The Convention | |
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| Retirement | |
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| Elbridge Gerry | |
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| The "self-serving" politician? | |
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| Gerry vs. Mason | |
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| John Hancock | |
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| "Treasonous" John Hancock | |
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| The governor | |
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| Patrick Henry | |
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| The Revolution | |
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| The Constitution | |
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| Red Hill | |
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| Richard Henry Lee | |
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| Those who love liberty | |
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| Virginian | |
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| Nathaniel Macon | |
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| The Quid | |
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| The Republican of Buck Spring | |
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| Francis Marion | |
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| The Swamp Fox | |
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| The politically incorrect soldier | |
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| John Marshall | |
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| Chief Justice | |
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| The architect of big government | |
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| George Mason | |
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| The "retired" revolutionary | |
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| "Objections to the Federal Constitution" | |
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| Slavery | |
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| Roger Sherman | |
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| The Atlas | |
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| The Connecticut Compromise | |
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| John Taylor of Caroline | |
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| Secessionist | |
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| The pamphleteer | |
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| Conclusion: What the Founding Fathers Would Do | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |