Abbreviations
Chronology, 1796-1918
Preface
Introduction
1. Fiction and History in Washington, D.C.
2. The Mighty Machinery and the Hands on It: Henry Adams’s Washington
3. "No Doubt They All Bore More or Less the Stamp of Boston"
4. Democracy: The Novel as Disguised Autobiography
5. Echoes of Democracy in Henry James
6. Gallatin: The Cosmopolitan Frontiersman Jeffersonian
7. John Randolph: Biography as Satire
8. "History Has Many Cunning Passages"
9. "Could It Take Permanent Political Shape? Could It Give New Life to Religion and Art?"
10. "The Reign of Politics Showed No Sign of Ending"
11. Esther and an Attempted Rescue
12. Conversation, Edward Gibbon, Clover Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Notes
Bibliography
Index