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Contents
Full Edition: Chapters 1-15
Post-45 Edition: Chapters 8-15
Chapter 1. Origins of the American Century
Chapter 2. “To Start to Make This World Over”: Imperialism and Progressivism, 1898–1912
Chapter 3. Refining and Exporting Progressivism: Wilson’s New Freedom and the Great War, 1913–1919
Chapter 4. Prosperity’s Precipice: The Paradoxes of the 1920s
Chapter 5. A Twentieth-Century President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Term, 1932–1936
Chapter 6. A Rendezvous with Destiny, 1936–1941
Chapter 7. The Watershed of War: At Home and Abroad, 1942–1945
Chapter 8. A Rising Superpower, 1944–1954
Chapter 9. Postwar Prosperity and Its Discontents 1946—1960
Chapter 10. A Season of Change: Liberals and the Limits of Reform, 1960–1966
Chapter 11. May Day: Vietnam and the Crisis of the 1960s
Chapter 12. Which Side Are You On? The Battle for Middle America, 1968–1974
Chapter 13. A Season of Darkness: The Troubled 1970s
Chapter 14. The New Gilded Age, 1980–2000
Chapter 15. United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Since 2000
