Editor's introduction -- Editor's note on sources and editing methods -- Introduction -- Part I. Some notes on family life -- 1. Family life -- 2. Recreation -- 3. The Bohemian Club encampment -- 4. The passing of Mrs. Hoover -- Part II. Crusades for benevolent institutions -- 5. Crusading for benevolent institutions -- Part III. The crusade against collectivism in American life -- 6. The crusade against collectivism to the presidential campaign of 1936 -- 7. The crusade against collectivism, continued: the party conventions and campaign of 1936 -- 8. The crusade against collectivism from the Landon defeat until the congressional election of 1938 -- 9. The crusade against collectivism from the Landon defeat in 1936 to the congressional election in 1938, continued -- 10. The crusade against collectivism from the 1938 congressional election to the presidential election of 1940 -- 11. The crusade against collectivism from the election of 1940 to the presidential campaign of 1944 -- 12. The presidential conventions and campaigns of 1944 -- 13. The crusade against collectivism from the presidential election of 1944 to the congressional election of 1946 -- 14. The crusade against collectivism from the congressional election of 1946 to the presidential election of 1948 -- 15. The crusade against collectivism from the presidential election of 1948 to the presidential election of 1952 -- 16. The continental crusade after 1952 -- Editor's postscript to Part III -- Appendix I. Other crusades -- Appendix II. Selected documents pertaining to Hoover's crusade book project.