The American political tradition and the men who made it

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.