Preface Introduction Chapter 1: A New Birth of Freedom Deferred: Benjamin R. Tillman, Ida B. Wells Chapter 2: Final Frontiers, Vanishing Americans: Geronimo, Helen Hunt Jackson Chapter 3: Wealth and Social Justice in the Industrial Age: Andrew Carnegie, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Chapter 4: Progressive America in the World: Woodrow Wilson, Randolph Bourne Chapter 5: Popular Culture in the New Era: Babe Ruth, Louis Armstrong Chapter 6: Defending Democracy in Hard Times: Floyd Olson, Eleanor Roosevelt Chapter 7: Questions of Loyalty in Peace and War: Charles Lindbergh, J. Robert Oppenheimer Chapter 8: Defining Dissent in Cold War America: Paul Robeson, Pat McCarran Chapter 9: New Frontiers in Activism: Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan Chapter 10: Racial Justice: Thought and Action: James Baldwin, Stokely Carmichael Chapter 11: The Agony of Vietnam: Robert McNamara, David Halberstam Chapter 12: The New Right: Root and Branch: William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan Chapter 13: Uncertain Times: America Enters the 21st Century: George W. Bush, Barack Obama.