Introduction : legacy of the postwar commercial fallout
Weapons of mass disorder : impediments to mobilization
Weapons of mass persuasion : mobilization through symbol management
Positioning machine age heroes and wartime types
Glimpses into a "better America"
Home front war : the campaign to save the American way
Hygienic solutions for the "house of tomorrow"
Postwar progress : myth or reality?
Wartime skeptics and the "world of tomorrow"
What did happen to the dreamworld? realities of the postwar commercial fallout
The cold war's commercial fallout
Afterword : the "better America" today.