CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I: ON UTOPIANISM

CHAPTER ONE
The Tyranny of Utopia

CHAPTER TWO
Plato’s Republic and the Perfect Society

CHAPTER THREE
Thomas More’s Utopia and Radical Egalitarianism

CHAPTER FOUR
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan and the All-Powerful State

CHAPTER FIVE
Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto and the Class Struggle

PART II: ON AMERICANISM

CHAPTER SIX
John Locke and the Nature of Man

CHAPTER SEVEN
The Influence of Locke on the Founders

CHAPTER EIGHT
Charles de Montesquieu and Republican Government

CHAPTER NINE
The Influence of Montesquieu on the Framers

CHAPTER TEN
Alexis de Tocqueville and Democracy in America

PART III: ON UTOPIANISM AND AMERICANISM

CHAPTER ELEVEN
Post-Constitutional America

CHAPTER TWELVE
Ameritopia

Epilogue

Notes

Acknowledgments