From the Book - Regular Print - 1st ed.
Prologue : The state of the world, March 2, 1933
1. The New Deal begins. Inauguration amid crisis
A week of fateful decision
Improvisations on discordant themes: the opening rush of the hundred days
Improvisations continue as pressures increase: to the end of the hundred days
The wrecking of the London Conference
2. A pattern emerges from the initial surge of the New Deal. The personality and mind of the New Deal
Recovery through planned scarcity: NRA and AAA
A hazardous passage across winter into spring and summer 1934
The view from Russian Hill: an interlude and retrospect
3. The New Deal ebbs, then flows to its highest tide. Into a land of quandary: the elections of 1934, and after
Concerning social security: the first faltering steps toward a welfare state
Work relief and its dubiously legitimate offspring
Breakthrough: the first New Deal gives way to the second
4. The man becomes the issue. Into 1936, under gathering clouds of war
A rendezvous with destiny
Concerns and anticipations: November, December 1936
Epilogue : A summing-up, January 1, 1937.