History of U.s. Age of Extremes Book

	Preface: An Age of Extremes	9
	Feature: A Nation of Practical Idealists	11
1	Carnegie	13
	Feature: How Do You Make Steel?	16
2	A Bookkeeper Named Rockefeller	19
3	Mr. Storyteller	23
4	Powerful Pierpont	27
5	Monopoly--Not Always a Game	30
	Feature: Let's Talk Business	34
6	Builders and Dreamers	35
7	Lady L	43
8	Presidents Again	50
9	The People's Party	57
10	Making Money	63
11	Hard Times	67
	Feature: A Woman Who Didn't Like to Be Called a Hero (But Was One)	70
12	Gold and Silver	72
	Feature: Cheese Sandwiches in the Klondike	74
13	A Cross of Gold	77
14	Some Bad Ideas	83
15	Producing Goods	87
	Feature: the Mail (Not the Mall) for Shopping	91
	Feature: God and Money in America	92
16	Harvest at Haymarket	93
17	Workers, Labor (and a Triangle)	99
	Feature: Leaving Sicily	103
18	Rolling the Leaf in Florida	104
19	Catching The Day	108
20	Telling It Like It Is	112
	Feature: Inferno in Chicago	116
21	Bread and Roses, Too	118
22	The Fourth Estate	124
23	Ida, Sam, and the Muckrakers	127
24	A Boon to the Writer	130
25	In Wilderness Is Preservation	134
	Feature: Parks for a Nation	138
26	The Gilded Age Turns Progressive	139
27	Teedie	144
28	From Dude to Cowboy	148
29	The Spanish-American War	152
	Feature: War with Spain--Imperialism and Open Doors	157
30	Aloha Oe	158
31	Teddy Bear President	164
32	Jane Addams, Reformer	170
33	Henry Ford	175
34	The Birdmen	179
35	William Howard Taft	185
	Feature: Some Political Theory: a Discussion	186
36	A Schoolteacher President	189
37	War	193
	Feature: "We're Coming Over ..."	197
	Chronology of Events	198
	More Books to Read	200
	Picture Credits	201
	Index	203
	A Note from the Author	207
	Atlas	209