Feb. 10--From "Republic" to "Democracy" II: A Centrifugal Society

1. The Opening of American Society--The West
   1. The Republican Vision of the West--Replenishing "Virtue"
   2. Reality--the Breakdown of Traditional Community
2. A Society of Strangers
   1. Lack of Stable Authority
   2. Wealth as Chief Criterion of Status
   3. The "Tyranny of the Majority"--Alexis de Tocqueville
3. The Reinvention of Community
   1. Voluntary Societies
   2. The "Booster Ethos"
   3. Mass Politics
4. America as an "Expansive" Society