Preface: Age of extremes -- Feature: Nation of practical idealists -- Carnegie -- Feature: How do you make steel? -- Bookkeeper named Rockefeller -- Mr. Storyteller -- Powerful Pierpont -- Monopoly -- not always a game -- Feature: Let's talk business -- Builders and dreamers -- Lady L -- Presidents again -- People's Party -- Making money -- Hard times -- Feature: Woman who didn't like to be called a hero (but was one) -- Gold and silver -- Feature: Cheese sandwiches in the Klondike -- Cross of gold -- Some bad ideas -- Producing goods -- Feature: Mail (not the mall) for shopping -- Feature: God and money in America -- Harverst at Haymarket -- Workers, labor (and a triangle) -- Feature: Leaving Sicily -- Rolling the leaf in Florida -- Catching the day -- Telling it like it is -- Feature: Inferno in Chicago -- Bread and Roses, too -- The Fourth Estate -- Ida, Sam, and the Muckrakers -- Boon to the writer -- In wilderness is preservation -- Feature: Parks for a nation -- Gilded age turns progressive -- Teedie -- From dude to cowboy -- Spanish-American War -- Feature: War with Spain -- imperialism and open doors -- "Aloha Oe" -- Teddy Bear President -- Jane Addams, reformer -- Henry Ford -- Birdmen -- William Howard Taft -- Feature: Some political theory: a discussion -- Schoolteacher President -- War -- Feature: "We're coming over..."