1. "I'd have butchered beautifully" : birth of a bourgeois, 1880-1899
2. "A sort of celestial call" : reporter and editor, 1899-1906
3. "Wider and lusher fields" : columnist and critic, 1906-1914
4. "The Puritans have all the cards" : at the Smart Set, 1915-1918
5. "Don't wait until the firemen arrive" : becoming a legend, 1918-1923
6. "I am my own party" : at the American Mercury, 1924-1928
7. "I discern no tremors" : marriage and the Crash, 1929-1935
8. "We'll even it up" : the age of Roosevelt II, 1935-1941
9. "It will become infamous to doubt" : skeptic in exile, 1942-1948
10. "Until thought and memory adjourn" : scourge at bay, 1948-1956.