Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Part I The Crisis of Democracy -- Chapter 1--The War of Liberation -- Manning the Front -- Forging the Sword -- The Society of the Battlefield -- Let Us Die to Make Men Free -- Chapter 2--The Reconstruction of Slavery -- Bound for Freedom -- A Revolutionary Experiment -- I'se Free. Ain't Wuf Nuffin -- Part II The Business of Democracy -- Chapter 3--The Forces of Production -- Innovators: The Ingenious Yankees -- Investors: Eastern Dollars and Western Risks -- Entrepreneurs: The Californians -- Industrialists: Carnegie, Rockefeller, and the Two Capitalisms -- Philadelphia 1876: The Proud Exhibitors -- Chapter 4--The Structure of Classes -- Upper Classes: The New Rich and the Old -- The Middle Classes: A Woman's Work -- The Farmer's Lot -- Working Classes: The Conditions of Existence -- Social Class and Social Outcast -- Chapter 5--The Power of Ideas -- Dinner at Delmonico's -- The Bitch-Goddess Success -- Toiling Millions Now Are Waking -- The Alliance: A Democracy of Leaders -- Chapter 6--The Brokers of Politics -- The Ohioans: Leaders as Brokers -- Politics: The Dance of the Ropewalkers -- The Poverty of Policy -- Showdown 1896 -- Triumphant Republicanism -- Part III Progressive Democracy? -- Chapter 7--The Urban Progressives -- The Shape of the City -- The Life of the City -- The Leaders of the City -- The Reformation of the Cities -- Women: The Progressive Cadre -- Chapter 8--The Modernizing Mind -- The Pulse of the Machine -- The Critics: Ideas vs. Interests? -- Art: "All That Is Holy Is Profaned -- Writing: "Venerable Ideas Are Swept Away -- All That Is Solid Melts into Air -- Chapter 9--The Reformation of Economic Power -- The Personal Uses of Power -- Foreign Policy with the TR Brand -- Reform: Leadership and Power -- Chapter 10--The Cauldron of Leadership.

Taft, TR, and the Two Republican Parties -- Wilson and the Three Democratic Parties -- Armageddon -- Part IV Democracy on Trial -- Chapter 11--The New Freedom -- The Engine of Democracy -- The Anatomy of Protest -- Markets, Morality, and the "Star of Empire -- Chapter 12--Over There -- Wilson and the Road to War -- Mobilizing the Workshop -- Nous Voilà, Lafayette! -- Over Here: Liberty and Democracy -- Chapter 13--The Fight for the League -- The Mirrored Halls of Versailles -- The Battle for the Treaty -- 1920: The Great and Solemn Rejection -- Part V The Culture of Democracy -- Chapter 14--The Age of Mellon -- The Business of America … -- Bankers and Battleships -- The Voices of Protest -- Chapter 15--The Commercialized Culture -- The Workshop of Education -- The Press as Entertainment -- Entertainment as Spectatorship -- The Workshop and the Demos -- Chapter 16--The Vacant Workshop -- Life in the Depression -- The Crisis of Ideas -- Once I Built a Railroad, Made It Run -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments -- Preview: The Crossroads of Freedom -- Copyright.