Contents
Preface    vii
Note on the text    xiv
List of plates    xv
List of maps    xvii
Introduction    1
1 History's cruel tricks    10
2 Revivingthedream    31
3 The drama of reform    58
4 Waiting for the end of the world    86
5 Survival and cannibalism in the rust belt    l13
6 Democracy without liberalism?    142
7 Idealism and treason    171
Notes    197
Further reading    233
Index    237