Contents -- Foreword, Matthew Rothschild -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Political Beginnings -- Chapter 2. In the House of Representatives -- Chapter 3. The Reed Congress and the New National Issues -- Chapter 4. The Crucial Period of My Public Life -- Chapter 5. Six Years' Struggle with the Wisconsin Bosses -- Chapter 6. My First Term as Governor and the Problems I Had to Meet -- Chapter 7. How We Passed the Railroad Taxation Laws -- Chapter 8. Progressive Government Produces Business Prosperity: What Was Accomplished in Wisconsin -- Chapter 9. Alone in the Senate: Experiences with Roosevelt: Railroad Rate Legislation -- Chapter 10. Reinforcements: A National Progressive Movement -- Chapter 11. Why I Became a Candidate for the Presidency - Taft's Unavailability - A Complete History of Roosevelt's Course after His Return from Africa - Formation of the Organized Progressive Movement - Pressure for a Real Progressive Candidate -- Chapter 12. The True History of the Campaign of 1912 for the Republication Nomination to the Presidency -- Chapter 13. Why I Continued as a Candidate - Roosevent never a Progressive - His Record -- Appendix: Speech of Robert M. La Follette Delivered at the Annual Banquet of the Periodical Publishers' Association Philadelphia, February 2, 1912 -- Index.