Deliberation: a very brief history
The idea of deliberation
Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic
Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts
Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy
Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world
The eloquence of modern republicanism
The view from Bunker Hill
Writing the modern republic
Models of ancient eloquence
Res publica redivivus
Eloquent Shakespeare
Arguing with the Bible
The politics and aesthetics of deliberation
The rise of literary oratory
Daniel Webster's genuine word
The frontier humor of David Crockett
Prophesying the multiracial republic
Democracy and the "three races"
Beyond the white Christian republic
Reasoning with David Walker
Listening to the wisdom of babes
Toward multiracial deliberations
Deliberative fictions
Failures of deliberation
Cooper's trials
How to read deliberatively
Democratic hermeneutics
The great American deliberative novel
Protest at Mashpee
Property matters
Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future.
Imagining deliberative democracy in the early American republic by Sandra M. Gustafson. ISBN 9780226311296. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.