Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. The Myth of Power; 2. The Naturalist Ethos; 3. Henry Adams: The Metapolitics of Power and Order; 4. The Dehumanization of Politics; 5. Naturalist Fiction and Political Allegory; 6. Vitalism and Redemptive Violence; 7. "Godlike Reality": A Testing and Truthful Violence; Notes; Index