A republic of scoundrels: the schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation

Introduction / Timothy C. Hemmis

"Your best friends are not your countrymen" : the treason of Benedict Arnold / James Kirby Martin

Charles Lee : the general as scoundrel? / Mark Edward Lender

Blount's bunko : private fortune through public service in the Southwest Territory, 1970-1796 / Christopher Magra

"The spitting Lyon" : Matthew Lyon and the Federalists' fears / Shira Lurie

The devil from Dedham : Jason Fairbanks and the failure of manly virtue / Craig Bruce Smith

James Wilkinson : schemer, scoundrel, soldier, spy... success? / Samuel Watson

"The Mexican traveler" : Philip Nolan and the southwestern horse trade / Jackson Pearson

American adventurers in the Mississippi borderlands : Thomas Green and Georgia's 1785 Bourdon County scheme in Spanish Natchez / Christian Pinnen

Troubled trio : the Kemper brothers and the rebellion in west Florida, 1804 / Jane H. Plummer

William Augustus Bowles, the pretender : a Tory adventurer as Native American leader / David Narrett

Diego de Gardoqui : from hero of the revolution to scoundrel of the early republic / Tyson Reeder

An American scoundrel on trial : Aaron Burr and his failed insurrection, 1805-1807 / Timothy C. Hemmis

Conclusion / David Head.