| | 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 |