The American as archetype: George Washington
The American as aristocrat: John Adams
The American as Democrat: Thomas Jefferson
The American as conservative: Alexander Hamilton
The American as Republican: James Madison
The American as agrarian: John Taylor
The American as Federalist: John Marshall
The American as states' righter: John C. Calhoun
The American: Abraham Lincoln
The American as philosopher: Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American as anarchist: Henry David Thoreau
The American as poet: Walt Whitman
The American as radical: Henry George
The American as psychologist: William James
The American as skeptic: Oliver Wendell Holmes
The American as pragmatist: John Dewey
The American as nationalist: Theodore Roosevelt
The American as liberal: Woodrow Wilson
The American as reformer: Franklin D. Roosevelt.