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Bibliography: p. 563-638.

Table of Contents

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