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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Ideological Inheritance: 1.Educational theory and moral independence; 2. The transmission of ideologyand the bestsellers of 1775; 3. The familial politics of the Fortunate Fall;Part II. Forms of Filial Freedom: 4. The debt of nature reconsidered; 5.Affectionate unions and the new voluntarism; 6. Filial freedom and AmericanProtestantism; Part III. The Character of the National Family: 7. GeorgeWashington and the reconstituted family; 8. The sealing of the garden, Or theworld well lost; Notes; Index.