"Who We Are - America's Fight for Universal Progress
from Franklin to Kennedy" Vol. 1.
Table of Contents
Forethought
Introduction
Section 1
Chapter 1 - The Franklin Circle Starts Modern England
Franklin Arrives, 1757 1
The London Oligarchy 2
Setting to Work 4
The Industrialization of Manchester 5
More Canals, and Nation-Building Power 8
The World's First Steam Engine Business 13
A Great Stride in Chemistry 15
London’s Fury 17
Wilkinson, Boulton, Franklin and France 18
Chapter 2 - The New British Empire and Ireland
The Implications of Man’s New Powers Over Nature 27
An Inquiry into the Wealth of Shelburne 29
Ireland: Economic Nationalism, and a Glimpse of Freedom 33
Chapter 3 - America and France: Fateful Strategy Decisions
American Objectives Clash with the Empire 43
The National Party in the Revolution 49
British Postwar Strategy and Jefferson’s Path 54
Jefferson and Shelburne 58
Chapter 4 - The Founding Program of the American Republic
National Government Needed, to Save the Revolution 65
What Henry Knox Knew About the Shays Rebellion 67
Nationalist Preparations for the Convention 72
Who Wrote the Constitution? 77
The Fight for Ratification 80
As America Advances, France Explodes 82
Chapter 5 - Shelburne and Jefferson in France
Lord Shelburne’s Roster 85
British Political Interventions to Blow Up France 88
Shelburne as Jefferson’s Schoolmaster 93
Chapter 6 - The New Economic System
Breaking from a Degraded World Order 97
Hamilton’s Unique Path to the American Revolution 98
The Sequence of Events Behind the Fight 100
Jefferson and Madison on the Slave Hill 103
The Attack Begins 105
Franklin Steps In 107
Compromise 109
The Bank of the United States 110
Burr, Gallatin, and the Shelburne Apparatus 114
The Report on Manufactures 117
The Party System and the Delay of American Industrialization 122
Section 2 127
Introduction 129
Chapter 7 - Reviving the Founding Mission
Strategists of U.S. Industrialization 131
Henry Clay (1777-1852) 135
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) 140
Mathew Carey (1760-1839) 146
Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) 150
De Witt Clinton (1769–1828) 156
West Point, and Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865) 161
Chapter 8 - Fighting for Sovereignty: The War and its Aftermath
Clay and his War Hawks 171
The Old Order is Burned Down 183
Biddle Into Action: Defense, and Coal 189
Biddle, Adams, and “Strategic Intelligence” 194
Economic Crisis – “Looking out anywhere for a leader” 202
The Contest in New York 211
How West Point Was Transformed 222
West Point 1: The French Connection 224
West Point 2: The Foundry 233
The Morris Canal, and Revolution in New York 240
Chapter 9 - LIFTOFF
Monroe’s Message Invites Action 248
Congress Decides for National Development 251
Philadelphia Lights the Way Forward 255
The John Quincy Adams Presidency 263
Design for Civilization – the Western Canals 275
Birth of the Industrial Midwest 280
Pennsylvania Builds for the National Future 286
American Railroads Were Public Projects 288
The B & O: Public Funding, Army Expertise 289
The Foundry Powers the Trains 294
Chapter 10 - The Philadelphia Base for Universal Progress
The Reading Railroad and the National Bank 302
Philadelphia, the Locomotive Capital 304
Long and Norris 305
Matthias Baldwin 306
Garrett, Eastwick and Harrison 308
Harrison, Whistler, and the U.S.-Russian Alliance 310
Friedrich List: Building America and Germany 318
Iron: Technology and Tariffs 321
Pennsylvania Railroad, Henry Carey, and the Fight for National Survival 327
Promethean Science -- “The Emanation of Franklin” 333
Appendices 343
Shelburne, Baring, and Imperial Intelligence 345
The Richmond Junto 349
The Albany Regency: Anti-National Sabotage, from Burr to Van Buren 351
Excerpts from the New York Patriot, 1823-1824 357
The Washington Irving Circle and the West Point Foundry 359
Index 363