Making the American self : Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln / Daniel Walker Howe.

Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the problem of human nature
The American founders and the Scottish enlightenment
The political psychology of The Federalist
The emerging ideal of self-improvement
Self-made men: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
Shaping the selves of others
The platonic quest in New England
Margaret Fuller's heroic ideal of womanhood
The constructed self against the state.