Part I: Possibilities. The Movement ; The voices ; JFK ; The Pill and other changes ; Out with the old ; Reality check ; The Wall ; Sixty-one dingers ; The words of change ; The rainbow sign ; Ole Miss ; The missiles and the making of JFK ; Setting the stage ; 'A line in the dust' ; Murder and dreams ; Women's voices ; Birmingham and Dallas ; The Warren Commission

Part II: Inspiration/Loss. LBJ ; The British Invasion ; Freedom Summer ; Cynicism and free speech ; Landslide ; Keepers of the dream ; The blood of Malcolm ; Marches and martyrs ; Billy Graham speaks ; Vietnam ; Rebellion in California ; Grapes of wrath ; The sounds of music ; A nation at war ; RFK ; Black Power ; Music in Alabama ; 'In Cold Blood' ; 'Is God dead?' ; 'You have the right' ; 'We are all Mississippians' ; Measures of progress ; Dispatches ; The road to Riverside ; Rockwell and the power of art ; 'Burn, baby, burn' ; Long, hot summer of 1967 ; Summer of Love ; Joplin and Ronstadt ; Mr. Justice Marshall ; Jonathan Kozol and Mister Rogers ; The war at home ; A Philadelphia story ; The movies ; Dump Johnson ; The last campaigns ; Grief and rage ; Indiana ; 'Is everybody okay?' ; The shadow of death ; Chicago ; A Southern strategy ; The global sixties ; Earthrise

Part III: The unfinished story. President Nixon ; After Black Power, Women's Liberation ; The specter of busing ; The burning river ; Stonewall ; Dylan, Woodstock, and Cash ; 'One small step' ; Toward a bloody ending ; Homecoming ; Redemption.