Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- References to Tocqueville's Democracy in America -- Preface -- PART I PATHS TO DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA -- 1 Introduction: Thinking about American Democracy -- 2 Democracy's Experiment: From Inequality to Equality -- Tocqueville and the Federalists -- From Quality to Equality -- Equality and Liberty -- 3 Achieving a Democratic Civil Society -- Some Contrasting Conceptions of Civil Society -- What Makes American Civil Society Tick? -- PART II BEGINNINGS AND DEMOCRACY -- 4 Beginnings and History: Red and White in Tocqueville's America -- "Prehistorical" America -- 5 The New England Township Before the Revolution: Tocqueville's American Pastoral -- 6 A Second Beginning: Black and White in Tocqueville's America -- The Algerian Parallel -- Tocqueville and Slavery -- Race, Color, and Post-Christian Humanism in Tocqueville's Thought -- PART III AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL -- 7 Difference, Race, and Color in America -- 8 Maintaining American Democracy -- Confidence in Voluntary Associations -- Some Theoretical Background -- The Promise and Limits of Civic Action -- Afro-Americans and Civic Action -- 9 The State, Authority, and the People -- The Democratic State -- Authority in the Modern Democratic State -- We the People -- 10 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.