Prologue : the power of cotton
The cultural image of cotton, 1945
The new politics of cotton
The cotton conference
A new era begins
Ambassadors of foreign policy, 1945-1950
The dinner table war : postwar struggles
The South transformed : cotton's mechanization, 1945-1970
The white gold rush : cotton moves West
Boll weevils, worms, and moths : a hundred-year war
Memphis : the epicenter of the Cotton Belt
"The fabric of our lives" : cotton incorporated
The Texas plains : America's cotton patch
The question of subsidies
Crop lien to futures : financing cotton
The role of textiles
Research : the key to viability
Challenges anew
The globalization of cotton
The new cotton culture.