Table of Contents:
  • President Jefferson's court
  • Putting the ship on her Republican tack
  • Corsairs of the Mediterranean
  • Shadow of the first consul
  • In pursuit of the Floridas
  • American Catiline
  • Abuse of hospitality
  • Pacifists of 1807
  • Last phase of peaceable coercion
  • War-Hawks
  • President Madison under fire
  • Peacemakers
  • Spanish derelicts in the new world
  • Framing an American policy
  • End of an era
  • Bibliographical note
  • Index