Contents

Foreword by Edmund S. Morgan

Author’s Note

BOOK ONE

AURORA

CHAPTER  1     Reign of Witches

CHAPTER  2     Young Lightening-Rod

CHAPTER  3     Black Cockades

CHAPTER  4     American Terror

CHAPTER  5     The Pestilence

BOOK TWO

FATHER OF HIS COUNTRY

CHAPTER  6     Fabius

CHAPTER  7     Lightening-Snatcher

CHAPTER  8     The Duke of Braintree

CHAPTER  9     Victory

CHAPTER 10     The Rights of Man

BOOK THREE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

CHAPTER 11     Surgo ut Prosim

CHAPTER 12     Kingly Government

CHAPTER 13     Keystone of Democracy

CHAPTER 14     Upper Chamber

CHAPTER 15     Rat-Catcher

CHAPTER 16     Victory

Author’s Final Note

Note on the Illustrations

Endnotes

Index