'An affection that can never die' : Adams and Jefferson
'Dark and menacing evils' : creating the new national system, 1786-1792
'War on our own citizens' : partisanship, 1793-1796
'Quite at my leisure' : Jefferson and Adams on the eve of the battle in 1796
'A narrow squeak, ' : the first contested presidential election
'To recover self-government' : the partisan inferno, 1797-1798
'Our Bonaparte' : summer 1798 to autumn 1799
'We beat you by superior management' : winter and spring, 1800
'The boisterous sea of liberty' : the campaign of 1800
'The intention of our fellow citizens' : the election of 1800
'Give them the horrors' : the House decides the election
'The creed of our political faith' : Jefferson's inauguration
Epilogue : "the revolution of 1800".