"For too many years we lived on pious hopes" : America between the wars, 1919-1939
Biographical essay: Charles Evans Hughes
Biographical essay: Billy Mitchell
"We face one of the greatest choices in history": America on the Brink, August 1939
December 1941
Biographical essay: Charles Lindbergh
Biographical essay: Claire Chennault
"We have suffered a serious setback:" defeat, despair and determination, 1941-1942
Biographical essay: Franklin Roosevelt
Biographical essay: Joseph Rochefort
"We must be the great Arsenal of Democracy:" Mobilizing industry, labor and public opinion
Biographical essay: Henry J. Kaiser
Biographical essay: Frank Capra
"All of us at home are being tested": the social impact of war
Biographical essay: Rosie the Riveter / Naomi Parker Fraley
Biographical essay: Eleanor Roosevelt
"Pride of our nation"
America's fighting men and women
Biographical essay: Jacqueline Cochran
Biographical essay: Bill Mauldin
"Free to live and love and laugh" : wartime pastimes and pleasures
Biographical essay: Glenn Miller
Biographical essay: Aaron Copland
"To free a suffering humanity" : North Africa and Europe, 1942-1944
Biographical essay: Dwight Eisenhower
Biographical essay: Marlene Dietrich
"We shall strangle the black dragon of Japanese militarism" : The Pacific War, 1943-1944
Biographical essay: Douglas MacArthur
Biographical essay: John F. Kennedy
"We belong to many races and colors and creeds
we are Americans" : strains in the social fabric
Biographical essay
Jean Wakatsuki
Biographical essay: Roger Baldwin
"I have the right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog"
political unity and partisanship in wartime
Biographical essay: Henry Wallace
Biographical essay: Earl Browder
"We have learned to be citizens of the world": 1945
Biographical essay: J.R. Oppenheimer
Biographical essay: Harry Truman
Epilogue.