These Truths

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Question Stated

THE IDEA (1492–1799)

One The Nature of the Past

Two The Rulers and the Ruled

Three Of Wars and Revolutions

Four The Constitution of a Nation

THE PEOPLE (1800–1865)

Five A Democracy of Numbers

Six The Soul and the Machine

Seven Of Ships and Shipwrecks

Eight The Face of Battle

THE STATE (1866–1945)

Nine Of Citizens, Persons, and People

Ten Efficiency and the Masses

Eleven A Constitution of the Air

Twelve The Brutality of Modernity

THE MACHINE (1946–2016)

Thirteen A World of Knowledge

Fourteen Rights and Wrongs

Fifteen Battle Lines

Sixteen America, Disrupted

Epilogue: The Question Addressed

Acknowledgments

Illustration Credits