Table of Contents
Introduction 1
1 The Frontier Soldier 5
2 A Revolutionary Capital 20
3 Debating the Constitution 35
4 Slaves and Hypocrites 45
5 Innocence Lost 54
6 Citizen Genet 71
7 Entangling Alliances 87
8 Jay's Treaty 96
9 Talleyrand 114
10 Not a Sixpence 124
11 Love and War 133
12 Tossed into the Seine 147
13 The XYZ Papers 169
14 The Jonathan Robbins Affair 182
15 Privateers and Pirates 195
16 The New Order of Things 215
17 Showdown 231
18 A Strategic Retreat 243
19 Prizes of War 262
20 High Crimes 275
21 Treason 282
22 Estrangement 297
23 The Meaning of Sovereignty 306
24 Washington Burning 315
25 Friends and Enemies 326
26 The Supreme Law 339
27 The Pirate Lottery 348
28 The Great Steamboat Case 364
29 Public and Private 373
30 Right Remains with the Strongest 384
31 An Extravagant Pretense 396
32 In the Conqueror's Court 407
33 A Union Prolonged by Miracles 426
Acknowledgments 441
Notes 443
Selected Bibliography 477
Index 489