| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xv |
| Editor's Introduction | p. xvii |
| Abbreviated Titles Used in Citations | p. xxi |
| Prologue: November 11, 1918 | p. 1 |
| The American People on the Eve of the Great Depression | p. 10 |
| Panic | p. 43 |
| The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover | p. 70 |
| Interregnum | p. 104 |
| The Hundred Days | p. 131 |
| The Ordeal of the American People | p. 160 |
| Chasing the Phantom of Recovery | p. 190 |
| The Rumble of Discontent | p. 218 |
| A Season for Reform | p. 249 |
| Strike! | p. 288 |
| The Ordeal of Franklin Roosevelt | p. 323 |
| What the New Deal Did | p. 363 |
| The Gathering Storm | p. 381 |
| Bibliographical Essay | p. 427 |
| Index | p. 435 |