I enjoy life in Chicago -- Marching with Coxey's army -- "If Christ came to Chicago" -- Bloodshed -- Youthful unrest -- I marry but resist the temptation to settle down -- I establish my own personal journal -- Making money--though an author -- I enter a new world: New York and magazines -- I discover the Great American Renascence -- The new journalism -- Seen in Germany -- New and difficult decisions -- In the Arizona desert -- California and "The water-lord" -- I watch the birth pains of a famous invention -- I plan out a new life of my own -- The "muckraking period"--I talk with President Roosevelt -- Subterranean mysteries of American life -- Popular reception of the "exposure" articles -- I try to serve Theodore Roosevelt -- The President attacks the "muckrakers" -- Home in the country -- We take over the American Magazine -- Enter David Grayson -- Living under a nom de plume -- Rise of the insurgents--Taft as President -- Bob LaFollette of Wisconsin -- I meet Woodrow Wilson -- The President "opens his mind completely" -- Five happy years -- Three unhappy years -- My mission to Europe -- I meet the British labor leaders -- Studying the peace-by-negotiation movement--the Lord Mayor's dinner -- I meet several lords, a former prime minister, and a labor leader -- A rebellious Ireland and my report of what I saw -- "The greatest conference the Labor Party ever held in England" -- I report to Washington on the threat to American objectives -- The last days of the great war -- I am unexpectedly chosen to play a part in the peace conference -- Organization of the press department at Paris -- I sail for America and return with the President -- The President throws a bombshell -- Efforts to wear the President down -- The greatest sensation of the peace conference -- The great battles over Japanese-Chinese problems -- I watch the May Day riots in Paris -- Presenting the treaty to the Germans -- The President dedicates the first American cemetery in France -- Struggle for changes in the treaty -- The signing of the treaty in the Hall of Mirrors -- I watch Wilson's struggle with the Senate -- More about the fight on the treaty -- The tragedy of Woodrow Wilson -- I open the "steel box" -- Era of confusion: Harding and Coolidge -- The death of Woodrow Wilson.