Violence as an American way of life. A sick society? ; Violence as an American tradition ; Happiness is a warm gun ; Televiolence ; The despair of democracy ; Existential politics ; The recognition of responsibility -- The intellectual and American society. The rise of the modern intellectual ; Intellectuals and the American Revolution ; The nineteenth-century withdrawal from politics ; The return of the intellectuals ; The new hostility to politics ; Intellectuals and power in a democracy -- The origins of the Cold War. The rise of revisionism ; Universalism ; Spheres of influence ; The American analysis ; Confusions at the summit ; The asymmetry of totalitarianism ; Confrontation -- Vietnam : lessons of the tragedy. The legacy of collective security ; The legacy of liberal evangelism ; The legacy of geopolitics ; The legacy of conservative absolutism ; The rise of the warrior class ; The nemesis of universalism ; The last hurrah of the superpowers ; After the superpowers -- Joe College, R.I.P. The new university ; The new generation ; The international guerrilla war ; The ethos of the young ; The generation gap ; Student power ; The student left ; The demonstrations ; Personal meaning ; Heroes and hopes -- The prospects for politics. The anatomy of alienation ; Enter the new politics ; Jefferson vs. Hamilton ; Before 1968 ; The 1968 election ; The Republican response ; The Democratic response ; The future of the presidency ; The dilemma of presidential power
