Two souls within the human breast -- The revolutionary -- The frontiersman -- Contemporary heroic idealism -- The commercialism of America's heroic ideal -- Heroic mania -- The imitation of heroism -- Heroic tunnel vision -- The escape from heroism -- The metaphor of depth -- The historical roots of American innocence -- Jefferson's bastards -- The land of the overrated child -- The metaphor of the eternally young hero -- The explosion of innocence -- The metaphor of America's darkness -- The implosion of innocence -- The sacrifice of innocence -- America in the third millennium.
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