About the AuthorPhotosAcknowledgmentsIntroduction PART ONE: THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYChapter 1 The Progressive Era Begins: 1901-1912Chapter 2 Success and Backlash of Progressive Policy: 1913-1920Chapter 3 The Return to "Normalcy" and the Onset of the Depression: 1921-1932Chapter 4 The New Deal: 1933-1941 PART TWO: THE WAR YEARS, POST-WAR AND MODERN AMERICAChapter 5 War, Recovery and Readjustment: 1941-1952Chapter 6 America at Midcentury: 1953-1960Chapter 7 The New Frontier and Great Society: 1961-1968Chapter 8 Watergate, Distrust and Malaise: 1969-1980 PART THREE: POLARIZATION, GROWING INEQUALITY, AND DIFFICULT CHOICESChapter 9 Conversative Dominance: 1981-1992Chapter 10 Coming Into the Twenty-first Century: 1993-2000Chapter 11 Vulnerable America: 2001-2008Chapter 12 Polarized America: 2009-2016Chapter 13 Democracy Challenged: 2017-2022Appendix A : Stresses on SocietyAppendix B : key Policies, 1900-2021Appendix C : Policies Delayed or DeniedIndex