Preface: an age of extremes -- Feature: a nation of practical idealists -- Carnegie -- Feature: how do you make steel? -- A bookkeeper named Rockefeller -- Mr. Storyteller -- Powerful Pierpont -- Monopoly-not always a game -- Feature: let's talk business -- Builders and dreamers -- Lady L -- Presidents again -- The people's party -- Making money -- Hard times -- Feature: a woman who didn't like to be called a hero (but was one) -- Gold and silver -- Feature: cheese sandwiches in the Klondike -- A cross of gold -- Some bad ideas -- Producing goods -- Feature: the mail (not the mall) for shopping -- Feature: God and money in America -- Harvest at Haymarket -- Workers, labor, (and a Triangle) -- Feature: leaving Sicily -- Rolling the leaf in America -- Catching the day -- Telling it like it is -- Feature: inferno in Chicago -- Bread and roses, too -- The Fourth Estate -- Ida, Sam, and the muckrakers -- A boon to the writer -- In wilderness is preservation -- Feature: parks for a nation -- The Gilded Age turns progressive -- Teedle -- From dude to cowboy -- The Spanish-American War -- Feature: war with Spain-imperialism and open doors -- Aloha Oe -- Teddy bear president -- Jane Addams, reformer -- Henry Ford -- The birdmen -- William Howard Taft -- Feature: some political theory: a discussion -- A schoolteacher president -- War -- Feature: we're coming over.
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