I: Past and Present; Great Expectations; Vehicles for Change; Liberal Syndrome: The Politics of Hope; The People’s Press; “Common Scold”; William Lyon Mackenzie; Moments of Truth: Progressivism and War; II: Industry; The Machine in the Garden; Public Service and the Scapegoat; Panaceas; The Goo Goos; Josephine Shaw Lowell; Tom Watson and the Negroes; Labor, Immigrants, and Reform; Man of Action, Man of Words; The Old Populism; III: Progressivism; Imperialism; Theo; The New Time; The New Journalism; Writer-Reformers; Issues; Romance and Reality; Progressives; Woodrow Wilson; High Noon; Consolidations; Armageddon; Shadows Forward; Progress and Progressivism