Conservative heroes: fourteen leaders who shaped America, from Jefferson to Reagan

Foreword : Tucker's gift / by Amity Shlaes

"A faithful band"

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison : founding collaborators

Nathaniel Macon and John Randolph : the "tertium quids"

John C. Calhoun : "the cast-iron man"

Grover Cleveland : character and courage

Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon : commonsense government

Josiah W. Bailey : the conservative manifesto of 1937

John W. Davis : "public enemy number one"

Robert A. Taft : "Mr. Republican"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan : the conservative triptych

Epilogue : "As old as the republic itself."