From the Book - First U.S. edition.
Coming of age. "To make a more universal acquaintance": unhappy youths --
The American revolution. "The galling yoke of dependence": becoming rebels --
"Is my country the better for my having lived": making the American revolution --
"If we are saved, France and Spain must save us": the forge of war --
"Our affairs seem to be approaching fast to a happy period": glory for Hamilton, misery for Jefferson --
Postwar America. "The inefficacy of the present confederation": grief and intrigue --
"They will go back good republicans": Jefferson in Paris --
"To check the imprudence of democracy": Hamilton and the New Constitution --
The struggle to shape the new American Republic. "The greatest man that ever lived was Julius Caesar": the threshold of partisan warfare --
"Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest": unbridled partisan warfare --
"A little innocent blood": to the mountaintop and to the top of the mountain --
"A colossus to the antirepublican party": the election of 1796 --
"The man is stark mad": the election of 1800 - "This American world was not made for me": a glorious beginning and a tragic end --
