《HIDDEN HISTORY》

PART I. THE QUEST FOR HISTORY1

1. “A Wrestler with the Angel”3

2. The Transforming of Paul Revere24

3. The Adamses: A Family in the Public Service29

4. The Intimacy of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall48

5. Timetables of History56

PART II. A BY-PRODUCT NATION63

6. The Therapy of Distance65

7. Why a Theory Seems Needless76

8. Revolution Without Dogma94

9. The Equality of the Human Species111

PART III. THE RHETORIC OF DEMOCRACY125

10. The Rhetoric of Democracy127

11. A Nationally Advertised President138

12. An American Style in Historical Monuments150

13. The Perils of Unwritten Law159

PART IV. UNSUNG EXPERIMENTS177

14. The Courage to Doubt179

15. Political Technology184

16. From Charity to Philanthropy193

17. A Laboratory of the Arts210

18. The Amateur Spirit and Its Enemies220

PART V. THE MOMENTUM OF TECHNOLOGY227

19. Two Kinds of Revolutions229

20. From the Land to the Machine245

21. A Flood of Pseudo-Events254

22. From Hero to Celebrity284

23. From Traveler to Tourist297

Epilogue: The Republic of Technology and the Limits of Prophecy305

Index317