Introduction: a difficult mission
Early efforts
The task at home: rights for indigenous peoples and slaves
Getting the word to Hawai'i
Liberating Cuba: the first international war for democracy and human rights
Democratizing the Philippines
Asian missions: opening the door to democratic law
The subordination of Central America
Saving Mexico from itself
Freedom in the Caribbean: for whom?
The great war to make the world safe for democracy
Democracy and freedom for the Middle East
Reactions against the great war, and the small peace
More domestic distrust
Peace through law
Promoting constitutional law: the reconstruction of Japan and Germany
The war for men's minds
On the virtue of diffidence.