Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Is Consent Credible? -- 1. The Hidden Dynamic of Childhood Consent -- I. The Dream of Revolutionary Erasure -- 2. The Revolution against Patriarchy and the Crisis of Founding -- 3. Unencumbered Youth and the Postrevolutionary Vacuum of Authority -- 4. Divergent Childhoods, Different Republics: The Initial Turn to Socialization -- II. Framing Liberal Child Rearing in the Early Republic -- 5. The Emerging Consensus on Agency Socialization -- 6. Toward a Child-Centered Family -- 7. Winning the Child's Will -- 8. Socializing Society: Popular Education and the Diffusion of Agency -- 9. Educating the Agent as Liberal Citizen -- III. Consolidating the Postwar Agency Republic -- 10. The "Self- Made" Citizen and the Erasure of Socialization -- 11. A Superfluous Socialization? Shaping the Self-Realizing Child -- 12. Educating the Voluntary Citizen in an Organizational Age -- Coda: From Deweyan Consensus to the Crisis of Consent -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.