Part One, America discovers the modern: The jazz age

Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and Insull

And then came Ford

Transformations: New York City

The view from below: Muncie, Indiana

Dislocations.

Part Two, "One heckuva boom": Trickle-down economics

From war to prosperity

Electrifying Chicago

David Buick, Billy Durant, Alfred Sloan, and the modern car industry

What happened to Ford?

A productivity bonanza

Spinoffs

Laggards: agriculture

Laggards: real estate

On the eve of the crash.

Part Three, The Crash in the United States: New York Stock Exchange

The rise of Herbert Hoover

Charting the fall

The worm's eye view

The banking crises of the Great Depression

The twilight of the gods I. Insull

The twilight of the gods II. Kreuger.

Part Four, Blood, gold, and unpaid debts: Entanglements

The gold standard

Germany, 1919-1925 : vengeance, reparations, and war debts

The Dawes and Young plans

England, 1919-1925 : Churchill (sort of) chooses resumption

The French rollercoaster

The end of cooperation

Germany unravels

The golden jihad

Getting what you wish for.

Part Five, Roosevelt, reflation, and recovery: World Monetary & Economic Conference

Devaluing the dollar

Creating the "New Deal"

The New Deal in overview

The New Deal in detail

The rest of the New Deal: a roundup

Econometric analyses

Catastrophe

The unemployment conundrum

The great leap forward.

Part Six, The geology of the collapse: The legacy of war

The big picture

The details

A postscript to the reader.