The heritage of the progressive era; "a progressive war", 1917-1918; conflict and frustration, 1918-1920; in search of peace and prosperity, 1921-1924; toward a new economy and a higher self-government, 1922-1928, the associative vision at home and abroad, 1925-1928; alternatives to the mainstream; social rebels and social orderers; the persistence of unequal states; intellectual and cultural pursuits in a modernizing age; the new day and the Great Crash, 1928-1930; the Hoover vision at bay, 1931-1933; from Hooverism to the New Deal, 1932-1933.