Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Preface2 -- Part One Character and Circumstance -- Chapter 1 -- Character -- Gentlemen -- Hotspur and Bolingbroke -- Sacrificial Suicide -- Pretensions to Character -- The Chesterfieldian Fallacy -- Candor -- Chapter 2 -- Circumstance -- Party and Faction -- Emulation, Rivalry, and Ambition -- The West and Slavery -- The Character of Burr -- Chapter 3 -- The Fatal Twins -- Burr, Hamilton, and the Consolations of Religion -- Hamilton and the Consolations of Home -- Pain and Wrath -- Chapter 4 -- I Wish There Was a War -- Staff Work -- The Cincinnati and Thomas Jefferson -- Colonels Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson -- Where Is Jefferson? -- John Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, and the Question of Character -- Chapter 5 -- Politics, Love, Learning, and Death -- The Women -- Burr and Washington -- A Hypocrite or a Dangerous Man? -- Oaths and Other Words to Be Kept -- Dueling Founders -- Dr. Cooper Eavesdrops -- Chapter 6 -- Fascination -- Jachin and Boas -- Equal and Opposite -- Assisted Suicide -- The Code -- Part Two Character Tested by Slavery and Secession -- Chapter 7 -- The Civil Rights Movement of the 1790s and the First Jim Crow Period -- The Fourteen-Year Campaign -- Good Company -- Religion, Conviction, and Abolition -- The Manumission Society -- The Presence of Washington -- Burr, Hamilton, Jefferson, the French, and the Blacks -- The Center Holds: Burr, Jay, and Moderation -- Removal: Red and Black -- Chapter 8 -- Misdemeanors in Kentucky and Tennessee -- Secession, Filibustering, and James Wilkinson -- Washington Copes with Secession -- The French Incite Secession and Filibustering -- George Rogers Clark: Frustrated Filibuster -- Chapter 9 -- Filibustering as Policy, Glory, or Adventure -- Wilkinson and Wayne.

Hamilton and Wilkinson -- Hamilton's Will -- Strict Construction -- Burr and Disunion -- Chapter 10 -- Washington, Western Pennsylvania, and Secession -- Erring Sisters and Their Siblings -- Albert Gallatin and Secession -- Riots and Reaction -- Braddock's Field and Washington's March -- A Tempest in a Teapot? -- Georges Collot -- Burr, Gallatin, and the Election of 1800 -- Gallatin Attempts to Keep Two Friends -- Chapter 11 -- Character, Economic Interest, and Foreign Policy -- The Quasi-War and the Black Speech -- Private War and Private Embarrassments -- Part Three In the Wake of the Hurricane -- Chapter 12 -- Clamor and Retreat -- Sanctuary -- The Truxtons -- The General -- The Biddles Come to the Rescue -- Chapter 13 -- Southern Hospitality -- Gin, Green Seed, and Empire -- Patriotic Gratitude and Yankee Ingenuity -- The Attractions of Florida -- The Presences of History -- Three Generations of McIntoshes and Slavery -- Family -- Southern Communications -- Chapter 14 -- Fort George -- Don Juan McQueen -- Bowles, Slavery, and McQueen -- John Houstoun McIntosh -- Caballing in the Carolinas with the Scots -- Virginia Complications -- Part Four The Great Valley -- Chapter 15 -- Burr and the Middle Ground -- Among the Stockbridges -- Joseph Brant -- Chapter 16 -- "A Country of Slaves" -- Turning Oglethorpe Around -- Seminole -- Carondelet and Servile Insurrection -- Militia Matters -- Calming Mr. Jefferson -- Part Five The Expedition -- Chapter 17 -- Intentions, 1800-1805 -- Absurd Reports -- The Manic Burr Goes West -- On to the Hermitage, New Orleans, and the Clergy -- Casa Calvo, Grand Pré, Morales, and Recruiting -- La Chaumiere du Prairie -- Wilkinson's Fidelity -- Wilkinson's Estimates -- Jefferson Recomputes the Odds -- Chapter 18 -- Whose Valley? -- A Garden with a Past -- Burr's Lost Paradise -- Empire, Sanctuary, and Speculation.

Chapter 19 -- Mr. Jefferson's Colleagues -- Neutral Ground -- In the Shoes of Thomas Adam Smith -- George Morgan for the Prosecution -- John Adams and the "Lying Spirit" of the Virginians -- Meanwhile, in Bruinsburg -- Captain Hooke -- Chapter 20 -- The Thinking Part of the People -- The Jury Convenes at Jefferson College -- Senator Plumer Reports -- The Charge of Filibustering -- Mr. Jefferson's Private Armies and the Opinion of Another Jury -- The Mississipi Federalists -- Silas Dinsmoor -- Robert Ashley -- Thomas Rodney and Old '76 -- John McKee -- Chapter 21 -- The Wheeled Cell and the Trial -- Rousing the Neighborhood -- Benjamin Hawkins -- The Case of Bollmann -- Elijah Clarke and His Trans-Oconee Ruins -- Fort Wilkinson -- Chapter 22 -- Precedents and Justice -- Recalling a Real Rebellion -- Consolation Prizes -- French Accessories -- Chapter 23 -- Groundsprings of Wrath -- West by Southwest -- Cherchez les Femmes -- Postscript -- John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Other Women -- James Parton Attempts a Rescue -- The Falling Man -- Adams, Abolition, and Jefferson -- Adams and Jefferson -- The Worst and the Best -- Appendix: Biases and Apologies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Footnotes -- Chapter 1 -- ch01_fn01 * -- Chapter 3 -- ch03_fn01 * -- Chapter 6 -- ch06_fn01 * -- Chapter 14 -- ch14_fn01 * -- Chapter 15 -- ch15_fn01 * -- Chapter 23 -- ch23_fn01 *.