Table of Contents:
  • Montaigne and the cannibals
  • Tabula Rasa and utopia
  • Magna Charta and the word of God
  • The pride of being English
  • The war
  • Independence
  • The national vocation
  • Thomas Jefferson and Saint-Just
  • Sparta, Rome, the Land of Cockaigne, or Tartary
  • The Declaration of Independence
  • Congress and the Declaration
  • The American Revolution
  • Once more Montaigne but other cannibals
  • Jefferson against Hamilton
  • Karl Marx, America, and the Hippocratic Oath
  • The chapter of the hats
  • The only American economist of importance
  • The prophet of a new messiah
  • A trial of orthodoxy
  • Samuel Gompers and Lenin.