Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: thinking about American democracy
  • Democracy's experiment: from inequality to equality
  • Achieving a democratic civil society
  • Beginnings and history: red and white in Tocqueville's America
  • The New England township before the revolution: Tocqueville's American pastoral
  • A second beginning: black and white in Tocqueville's America
  • Difference, race, and color in America
  • Maintaining American democracy
  • The state, authority, and the people.