The idea of America: reflections on the birth of the United States

Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution

The legacy of Rome in the American Revolution

Conspiracy and the paranoid style

Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution

The origins of American Constitutionalism

The making of American democracy

The radicalism of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine considered

Monarchism and republicanism in early America

Illusions of power in the awkward era of federalism

The American enlightenment

A history of rights in early America

Conclusion : the American revolutionary tradition, or why America wants to spread democracy around the world.