"Wiebe sees the Progressive era of Theordore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as a search for organizing principles around which a viable social order could be constructed in a new, largely impersonal world."--Back cover.

First edition published in 1967.

Prelude -- The distended society -- Crisis in the communities -- The fate of the nation -- A new middle class -- Revolution in values -- Progressivism arrives -- The illusion of fulfillment -- The emergence of foreign policy -- The beatified brute -- Doorway to the twenties.