383 pages ; 24 cm

Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: Imperialism and anti-imperialism. 1. "The white man's burden" ; 2. A spread-eagle imperialist orator : Albert J. Beveridge, "The march of the flag" ; 3. McKinley's Postmaster General on economic expansion ; 4. William Jennings Bryan, "Imperialism" ; 5. The open door notes ; 6. Mark Twain on imperialism and "the blessings of civilization" ; 7. Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal Route ; 8. William Howard Taft and dollar diplomacy : message to Congress, December 3, 1912 ; 9. The Department of State, mining investors, and the Mexican Revolution, 1916 -- Part 2: The Progressive Era. 10. An intellectual formulates the new nationalism : Herbert Croly in "The promise of American life" (1909) ; 11. An intellectual criticizes the antitrust tradition : Walter Lippmann in "Drift and mastery" ; 12. A political leader formulates the new nationalism : Theodore Roosevelt at Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31,1910 ; 13. What they stood for at armageddon : the platform of the Progressive Party, 1912 ; 14. Woodrow Wilson on government, liberty, and business in the 1912 campaign : address to the New York Press Club, September 9, 1912 ; 15. Senator La Follette on the trusts and their remedy : speech to the Periodical Publishers' Association, Philadelphia, February 2, 1912 ; 16. Lincoln Steffens on civic corruption : "The shame of the cities" ; 17. The changing law : The Fourteenth Amendment, Justice Holmes, and the Brandeis Brief ; 18. A pioneer social worker describes the immigrants' life : Jane Addams in "Twenty years at Hull-House" (1910) ; 19. A literary radical on immigrants and national culture : Randolph Bourne, "Trans-national America" (1916) -- Part 3: War and peace. 20. Submarines and loans during the period of neutrality ; 21. The President calls for a Declaration of War : Wilson's address to Congress, April 2, 1917 ; 22. Senator Norris explains his vote against war ; 23. The Committee on Public Information and the war fever ; 24. The Yanks who went "over there" : report of General John J. Pershing, November 20, 1918 ; 25. Rationalizing industrial production for the war : Bernard Baruch and the War Industries Board ; 26. President Wilson pronounces American war aims : The Fourteen Points, January 8, 1918 ; 27. President Wilson defends the Treaty of Versailles : speech at Des Moines, Iowa, September 6, 1919 ; 28. An irreconcilable criticizes the Versailles Treaty : Senator William E. Borah, November 19,1919 ; 29. Fear and intolerance, Reds and aliens : "The Saturday Evening Post" during the postwar Red scare -- Part 4: The new era and the old complacency. 30. "After the great storm" : inaugural address of Warren Gamaliel Harding, March 4, 1921 ; 31. H. L. Mencken on the age of Coolidge and on William Jennings Bryan ; 32. Sinclair Lewis coins a word : "Babbitt" (1922) ; 33. Keeping cool with complacent Calvin Coolidge : extracts from his messages on the State of the Union, 1925-1928 ; 34. "A new era ... an economic revolution of the profoundest character" : John Moody in "The Atlantic monthly," 1928 ; 35. The government administrator as efficiency expert : Herbert Hoover's Annual report as Secretary of Commerce, 1924 ; 36. President Coolidge on "the spirit of our institutions" : veto of the McNary-Haugen Bill, May 23,1928 ; 37. The Secretary of State proposes to scrap battleships : Charles Evans Hughes at the Washington Conference, November 12, 1921 ; 38. "The Marines have landed" : President Coolidge on affairs in Nicaragua, January 10, 1927 ; 39. Prohibitionist rhetoric and strategy : the Reverend E. C. Dinwiddie of the Anti-Saloon League, 1915 ; 40. The difficulties of enforcing Prohibition : the Wickersham Commission Report ; 41. The religious issue in the 1928 election : the Charles Marshall-Governor Smith exchange of letters in "The Atlantic monthly"

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