From the Book - First Simon & Schuster paperback edition.
Section I: The crisis of creation
The seeds of the two-party system
The death of the one-term dream
A time of riots and insurrection
Washington's squabbling surrogate sons
A farewell "importantly and lastingly useful"
Section II: Washington's pillars of liberty
National unity: join or die
Political moderation: the fight against factions
Final discipline: debt and taxes
Virtue and religion: the faith of the first founding father
Education: "public opinion should be enlightened"
A foreign policy of independence: peace through strength
Section III: The afterlife of the idea
Washington wins the war of ideas
Washington is blue and gray
World wars and the temptation of empire
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