Table of contents for America the virtuous : the crisis of democracy and the quest for empire / Claes G. Ryn.

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Acknowledgements                                     ix
Preface                                              xi
Author's Note                                       xiii
Prologue: War without End                             1
1.  The Crisis of Western Civilization and           15
the Rise of Jacobinism
2.  The New Jacobinism                               25
3.  Creative Traditionalism or Radicalism?           43
4.  Democracy: Plebiscitary or Constitutional?       49
5.  Contrasting Forms of Morality and Society        55
6.  Aristocratic and Anti-Aristocratic Democracy     59
7.  The Father of Democratism                        71
8.  Love of One's Own and Love of the Common         77
9.  Moral Universality: A Philosophical Interlude    83 
10. Pluralistic Political Morality                   89
11. Democracy in Peril                               97
12. The New Jacobins and American Democracy         111
13. Democracy for the World                         123
14. Jacobin Capitalism                              145
15. Equality                                        155
16. A Center that Cannot Hold                       165
17. Responsible Nationhood                          177
18. Needed: A New Moral Realism                     189
Index                                               213