| Prologue: Iowa Waltz |
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| I: AMERICAN WAR |
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1. Veterans Day: 11 November 2007 |
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2. The fight for the citadel: soldiering and the Founding Fathers |
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3. The Drop Zone Cafe, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 2008 |
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4. The trials of the Roman |
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7. The quartermaster general, 1861-64 |
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8. John Rodgers Meigs, the Shenandoah Valley, summer and fall 1864 |
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9. Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs, October 1864–December 1865 |
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10. Washington, D.C., February 2008 |
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12. American war: Rohrbach-lês-Bitche, the Maginot Linenear Metz, 10 December 1944 |
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| II: AMERICAN FERVOR |
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13. Atlantic City, August 1964 |
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15. Raven, Virginia, 2008 |
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17. "Whereas Almighty God bath created the mind free..." |
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20. The sovereignty of the voice |
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21. Easter Sunday, 2008, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta |
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23. Ruleville, Mississippi, 31 August 1962 |
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| III: WHAT IS AN AMERICAN? |
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24. Twilight, Downing Street, June 2008 |
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25. Citizen Heartbreak: France, August 1794 |
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27. The Chicken Club, south Texas, July 2008 |
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28. The immigrant problem in Texas |
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29. The German threat—again |
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30. The importance of Fred Bee |
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| IV: AMERICAN PLENTY |
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34. Strawberry fields, 1775 |
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37. The church of irrigation |
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| Epilogue: The Impotent Angel? |
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| Bibliography |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Picture Acknowledgments |
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| Index |
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