From the Book - First Rowman & Littlefield edition.
Prologue: Eleven states create a nation
Etiquette advice for the president
The constitution as blueprint
America's "other persons"
Stricken Washington, fearful nation
Washington gets a Bastille key
Seeing America's farms and factories
The second session: Hope and angst
On the frontier, spies and plots
Toward an American language
Epilogue: in rising glory
Appendices: The "correct" constitution of the United States; Inside the dozen: The Bill of Rights; A timeline of the founding of the United States and the federal government.