Table of Contents

1. A Dubious Legacy Of Good Estate The Patriot Preparations in the Traditional Mode 2. A Federalist from Principle Forced into the Lists The Federalist Persuasion Thick-Skinned Beasts Will Crowd Congress Hall Our Opponents Are Better Politicians 3. The Politics of Exasperation Whistling in the Dark That Cemetery of All Comfort I Live, However, Happy 4. Escape into War The Great Transgression Dull Times A Worthy Experiment 5. Between Jobs On the Homefront Busy with Nothing to Do Among the Whores and Rogues 6. Back to Work A Very Hazardous Thing for a People to Do The Darling of the Boston Democracy Its First Public Officer 7. Quincy's Boston To Make Vice Less Obtrusive Might As Well Be Fitted at the Publick Expense This Poor Exhausted Body Politic 8. The Making of a Schoolmaster The Augustan Age There's a President for You A Bone for Old Quin' to Pick 9. Toward a University A Chivalric Expedition An End to Scholastic Uniformity The President as Mendicant Into the Politico-Theologico Sea 10. A Final Eminence Nestor Father and Sons The Only True Conservative Doctrine Land after a Long Navigation Bibliographical Note on the Manuscript Collections Abbreviations Notes Index

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