Introduction
A new hand at the helm --
Other battlefields --
Roosevelt takes charge --
The election of 1904 --
Municipal reform --
1906 --
Conservation --
The immigrants --
The farmers --
Losing ground: Black Americans --
The election of 1908 --
Coming down: the Taft Administration --
The left --
The war goes on --
The Paterson strike --
Greenwich Village --
It's Roosevelt again --
The rise of Woodrow Wilson --
The Swan song of the progressives --
The commission on industrial relations --
Fat cats and experts --
Ludlow --
A brilliant start --
Foreign policy --
The war begins --
The European War --
Neutral America --
The election of 1916 --
America enters the war --
The Russian Revolution --
Suppressing dissent --
Mobilizing the nation --Over there --
The fourteen points --
The Peace Conference --
Troubled Europe --
The Commissions --
Concluding the treaty --
The treaty and the Senate --
The consequences of the war --
Russia again --
Americans against Americans --
The Republicans recapture the White House --
The genius of Woodrow Wilson --
Religion --
Education --
The new technologies --
Art and architecture --
The popular novel --
The literary scene --
Four women writers --
Recurrent themes --
Conclusion
Index