Abbreviations
I. Coming of Age
II. Creation of te War Departments
III. The Office and the Powers
IV. The Administration of Benjamin Lincoln
V. A Transition into the Unknown
VI. Bookseller in High Station
VII. The Peacetime Military Establishment
VIII. Council Fires Begin to Burn
IX. The Final Test: Shays's Rebellion
X. Rock among the Sands
XI. "A Hoop to the Barrel"
XII. Finding Roots in the Federal Government
XIII. Council of the Executive
XIV. The Western Debacle
XV. Reappointment with Destiny
XVI. Wooing the Southern Tribes
XVII. War Powers Asserted
XVIII. An Evaluation
Notes
Appendices
Bibliograph
Index