I. Transportation revolution --
1. DeWitt Clinton: Prophet of internal improvements --
2. Daniel Webster: Economic nationalism continued --
3. Qualified nationalism: A southern spokesman --
4. Political problems: Northern style --
5. Political problems: Southern style --
II. The worker --
1. An early labor manifesto --
2. The antilabor mentality --
3. A European observer and the Lowell "miracle" --
4. An American radical --
III. Religion --
1. The Unitarian sunrise: William Ellery Channing --
2. The revivalist campfire: Charles G. Finney --
3. A conservative indictment: Francis Lieber --
IV. The spirit and practice of reform --
1. The good soul: Ralph Waldo Emerson --
2. Education for conservatism: Horace Mann --
3. Females, human rights, and reform --
4. Establishment reform: African colonization --
5. Colonization under fire: The abolitionist temper --
V. The new rules --
1. Universal suffrage: Divergent views --
2. The lawmakers --
3. The acceptance of party --
4. Looking for votes --
VI. The Jacksonians take over --
1. The barbarians at the gates --
2. The scourge of patronage --
3. Strengthening the presidency --
VII. The bank war --
1. Jackson's veto: No retreat --
2. The enemy camp: Calculations and daydreams --
3. Van Buren's "divorce" of bank and state --
VIII. Whig response --
1. The new Whigs: Weed, the operator --
2. The new Whigs: Seward, the believer --
3. An old fogy, northern style --
4. A young fogy, southern style --
5. Democratic Whigs? --
doubts of a German skeptic --
Suggestions for further readings.

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