Table of Contents:
“…Introduction -- Beginnings -- Thetford and beyond -- "Poverty begets meanness" -- Liberty and the republic -- "Common sense will tell us" -- Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots -- Financial plagues and Silas Deane -- A hired pen -- Invention and finance -- France -- Burke's response: "The swinish multitude" -- The "inherent, indefeasible" Rights of man -- Social responsibility and illuminist spirituality -- "The most determined champion of republican principles" -- The Revolution declines -- The two-edged sword of liberty -- The age of reason -- "Some very ignorant and stupid pretenders" -- Justice, agrarian style -- Illuminism and Nicolas de Bonneville -- Home in America -- Bitter battles with Federalists -- Final days -- Assessment.…”