Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Political setting
  • "Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny": nineteen forty-three
  • "His mind liberal and accommodating": when John F. Kennedy dined in company
  • "We confide in our own strength": the Reagan revolution(ary)
  • "The boisterous ocean of political passions": Jefferson since William Jefferson Clinton
  • Part II. Culture wars
  • "Misery enough, but no poetry": race and the remaking of a symbol
  • "Abortion to their hopes": Jefferson versus religious authority
  • "History becomes fable": yesterday's future.