How Americans lost sight of the state: adapting republican virtue to liberal self-interest -- "To strengthen and perpetuate that union": republican political economy -- Outside the boundaries: "powers and energies in the extreme parts" -- Uncontested state: letters, law, localities -- Restoring "spontaneous action and self-regulation": civil war and civil society -- Judicial exceptions to Gilded Age laissez-faire -- "Special form of associative action": new liberalism and the national integration of public and private

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