Two keys to American history. The postpartisan style in American politics ; America's forgotten egalitarian tradition -- The politicians amd the egalitarians. Thomas Paine : the origins of American egalitarianism ; Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Thomas Jefferson ; John Quincy Adams : slavery's arch-enemy ; John Brown : the temptation of terror ; Abraham Lincoln : egalitarian politician ; Democracy at Gettysburg, 1863 ; The steel town and the Gilded Age ; W.E.B. Du Bois : a heroic education ; Theodore Roosevelt : politics and folly ; The Liberals and the Leftists ; The Cold War and the perils of junk history ; Lyndon B. Johnson : the triumph of politics.