Contents:
The frontier soldier -- A revolutionary capital -- Debating the constitution -- Slaves and hypocrites -- Innocence lost -- Citizen genet -- Entangling alliances -- Jay's treaty -- Love and war -- Tossed into the Seine -- The XYZ papers -- The Jonathan Robbins affair -- Privateers and pirates -- The new order of things -- Showdown -- A strategic retreat -- Estrangement -- Washington burning -- Friends and enemies -- The great steamboat case -- Right remaias with the strongest -- An extravagant pretense -- A union prolonged by miracles.