pt. 1 Philosophic setting: Charles A. Beard: The myth of rugged American individualism
Upton Sinclair: Production for use
Reinhold Niebuhr: After capitalism
Stuart Chase: The age of distribution
John Dewey: The future of liberalism
Thurman Arnold: A philosophy for politicians ; pt. 2 Expectations: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Every man has a right to life
Paul H. Douglas: The Roosevelt program and organization of the weak
Robert M. MacIver: The ambiguity of the New Deal
Edward A. Filene: Business needs the New Deal
Henry A. Wallace: We need a declaration of interdependence ; pt. 3 National economic planning: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Bold, persistent experimentation
Rexford Guy Tugwell: Planning must replace laissez faire
Gerard Swope: A business approach to economic planning
Walter Lippmann: Planning will lead to oligarchy
David E. Lilienthal: Planning step by step ; pt. 4 Giantism in Business: Ernest Gruening: Controlling the giant corporation
William O. Douglas: How effective is securities regulation?
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Stop collectivism in business
Thurman Arnold: The rule of reason in antitrust action
Raymond Molely: Roosevelt's refusal to make a choice
Temporary National Economic Committee: The concentration of economic power ; pt. 5 Public Enterprise: Harry L. Hopkins: The war on distress
Nathann Straus: End the slums
Lewis Mumford: The government should support art
Hallie Flanagan: The drama of the Federal Theater Project
Max Lerner: A TVA "Yardstick" for the opinion industries
Alvin Hansen: The need for long-range public investment.
(continued) pt. 6 Organizing Labor: The Wagner Act: Unions of their own choosing
Heywood Broun: Why exclude domestic workers?
John L. Lewis: Industrial democracy in steel
Liberals disagree on the sit-down strike: Robert Morss Lovett: A G.M. stockholder visits Flint; Oswald Garrison Villard: A letter F.D.R. ought to write
Philip Murray: How the NLRB changed "Little Siberia"; pt. 7 The Farmer : Fiorello La Guardia: Urban support for the farmer
Henry A. Wallace: A defense of the New Deal Farm Program
William R. Amberson: Damn the whole tenant system
John Steinbeck: The torment of migrant workers in California
- Carey McSWilliams: Farm workers and "Dirt Farmers" need power ; pt. 8 Minimum Security: Hugo Black: For a thirty-hour work week
Stuart Chase: The consumer must be permitted to consume
Frances Perkins: The principles of social security
Henry Ellenbogen: The social security act is only a beginning
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A fair day's pay for a fair day's work
Samuel Lubell and Walter Everett: The breakdown of relief
Henry E. Sigerist: Government should also protect "The right to health"; pt. 9 The Negro: Guy B. Johnson: Does the South owe the Negro a New Deal?
John P. Davis: The New Deal: Slogans for the same raw deal
Robert C. Weaver: The New Deal is for the Negro
Walter White: U.S. Department of (white) Justice
Harold L. Ickes: Not "Special consideration" but a "New social order for all"
W.E.B. Du Bois: Can Federal action change the South?; pt. 10 The Constitution and Social Progress: Felix Frankfurter: Social issues before the Supreme Court
Morris R. Cohen: Fallacies about the court
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Court needs "new and younger blood"
The Supreme Court Retreats: Minimum-wage laws are constitutional; pt. 11 Critiques and Perspectives: Francis Perkins: FDR was "A little left of center"
Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Jay Vinton: The New Deal "Moves in every direction at once"
Floyd B. Olson: A new party to challenge capitalism
Norman AThomas: Socialism, not Roosevelt's pale pink pills
John Maynard Keynes: The maintenance of prosperity is extremely difficult
John Dewey: The old problems are unsolved
The New Republic: "Extraordinary accomplishments" and "Failure in the central problem."
