ch. 1. A New Englander as revolutionary: Samuel Adams -- ch. 2. Isaac Sears and the business of revolution -- ch. 3. Dr. Thomas Young and the radicalism of science and reason -- Interlude: From the letters of Josiah and Mary Bartlett -- ch. 4. A Virginian as revolutionary: Richard Henry Lee -- ch. 5. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, dutiful son and revolutionary politician -- ch. 6. On faith and generations in revolutionary politics.