Table of Contents
Preface xi
Prologue 1
Part 1
Chapter 1 Sons of Fathers 13
Chapter 2 A Tide in the Affairs of Men 37
Chapter 3 The Turtle's Back 53
Part 2
Chapter 4 The Charming Sound of Bullets 75
Chapter 5 World on Fire 92
Chapter 6 This Land I Have Made for You and Not for Others 119
Chapter 7 The Spirit That Rages 151
Chapter 8 Thirteen Toasts 178
Chapter 9 Assuming Command 203
Chapter 10 A Natural Inclination to Liberty 219
Chapter 11 The City of New York Will, in All Human Probability, Very Soon Be the Scene of a Bloody Conflict 252
Chapter 12 So Celestial an Article 273
Chapter 13 Cannons Muskets Drums 296
Chapter 14 White Freedom 326
Chapter 15 I Am Your Son! I Am a Warrior! 355
Chapter 16 Numberless Meteors Gleaming Through the Atmosphere 370
Part 3
Chapter 17 The Cause of Humanity 395
Chapter 18 Rough Hewer 416
Chapter 19 Glowing with Zeal for the General Happiness and Improvement of Mankind 440
Chapter 20 Which Nothing Else Can Equal 476
Epilogue 505
Acknowledgments 511
Notes 515
Bibliography 557
Index 579