Book 3 -- Concerning The New Deal -- Gardiner C Means -- Raymond Moley -- C B (Beanie) Baldwin -- James A Farley -- Joe Marcus -- Burton K Wheeler -- David Kennedy -- John Beecher -- Unreconstructed Populist -- Congressman C Wright Patman -- Peroration -- Colonel Hamilton Fish -- Scarlet Banners And Novenas -- William L Patterson -- Max Shactman -- Dorothy Day -- Fred Thompson -- Saul Alinsky -- Doctor, Huey And Mr Smith -- George Murray -- Senator Russell Long -- Evelyn Finn -- Gerald L K Smith -- Circuit Rider -- Claude Williams -- Gentleman From Kansas -- Alf M Landon -- View Of The Woods -- Christopher Lasch -- Robert A Baird -- Tom, his younger son -- Peter, his older son -- Campus Life -- Pauline Kael -- Robert Gard -- Chance Stoner -- Book 4 -- Merely Passing Through -- Edward Burgess -- Billy Green -- Scoop Lankford -- Three O'clock In The Morning -- Wilbur Kane -- Cable -- Myrna Loy -- Book 5 -- Fine And Lively Arts -- Hiram (Chub) Sherman -- Neil Schaffner -- Paul Draper -- Robert Gwathmey -- Knud Andersen -- Little Brother Montgomery and Red Saunders -- Jack Kirkland -- Herman Shumlin -- Public Servant-The City -- Elizabeth Wood -- Mick Shufro -- Elsa Ponselle -- Sergeant Vincent Murray -- Earl B Dickerson -- Dr Martin Bickham -- Evictions, Arrests And Other Running Sores -- Mrs Willye Jeffries -- Harry Hartman -- Max R Naiman -- Judge Samuel A Heller -- Young man from Detroit and two girl companions -- Honor And Humiliation -- Eileen Barth -- Ward James -- Ben Isaacs -- Howard Worthington -- Stanley Kell -- Horace Cayton -- W L Gleason -- Strive And Succeed -- Harry Norgard -- General Robert E Wood -- A A Fraser -- Tom Sutton -- Emma Tiller -- W Clement Stone -- Ray Wax -- Epilogue -- Raft / Reed -- Touch of rue / Virginia Durr.

Foreword, January-February 1986 -- Personal memoir (and parenthetical comment) -- Book 1 -- March -- Jim Sheridan -- A Everette McIntyre -- Edward C Shalk -- Song -- E Y (Yip) Harburg -- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -- Lily, Roy and Bucky -- Diane -- Andy -- Michael -- Tad -- Nancy -- Marshall and Steve -- Hard Travelin' -- Ed Paulsen -- Pauline Kael -- Frank Czerwonka -- Kitty McCulloch -- Dawn, Kitty's daughter -- Louis Banks -- Emma Tiller -- Peggy Terry and her mother, Mary Owsley -- Kiko Konagamitsu -- County Joe McDonald -- Cesar Chavez -- Fran -- Blackie Gold -- Big Money -- William Benton -- Arthur A Robertson -- Jimmy McPartland -- Sidney J Weinberg -- Martin DeVries -- John Hersch -- Anna Ramsey -- Dr David J Rossman -- Man And Boy -- Alonso Mosely -- Clifford Burke -- God Bless' The Child -- Jane Yoder -- Tom Yoder, Jane's son -- Daisy Singer -- Robin Langston -- Dynamite Garland -- Slim Collier -- Dorothe Bernstein -- Dawn, Kitty McCulloch's daughter -- Phyllis Lorimer -- Bob Leary -- Bonnie Laboring Boy -- Larry Van Dusen -- Jose Yglesias -- Evelyn Finn -- Hank Oettinger -- E D Nixon -- Joe Morrison -- Mary -- Gordon Baxter -- Three Strikes -- Bob Stinson the sit-down -- Gregory -- Charles Stewart Mott -- Scott Farwell -- Mike Widman the battle of Detroit, a preface -- Howard -- Dr Lewis Andreas Memorial Day, 1937 -- Book 2 -- Old Families -- Edward A Ryerson -- Diana Morgan -- Mrs Winston Roberts -- Noni Saarinen, Mrs Roberts' maid -- Julia Walther -- Member Of The Chorus -- Win Stracke -- High Life -- Sally Rand -- Tony Soma -- Alec Wilder -- Carl Stockholm -- Doc Graham -- Jerome Zerbe -- Judy -- At The Clinic -- Dr Nathan Ackerman -- Sixteen Ton -- Buddy Blankenship -- Mary Owsley -- Aaron Barkham -- Edward Santander -- Roger -- Farmer Is The Man -- Harry Terrell -- Oscar Heline -- Frank and Rome Hentges -- Orrin Kelly -- Emil Loriks -- Ruth Loriks, his wife -- Clyde T Ellis -- Emma Tiller -- Sumio Nichi -- Editor And Publisher -- Fred Sweet -- W D (Don) Maxwell -- Carey McWilliams.