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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Story of 1912: "A Year Supreme with Possibilities" | |
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| "Progressive": The Popular Label | |
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| Republican Chaos | |
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| The Trouble with Taft | |
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| "My Hat Is in the Ring": Roosevelt Returns | |
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| Democracy Redefined: The Republican Nomination | |
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| "Standing at Armageddon": Roosevelt and the Progressive Party | |
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| An Almost Certain Victory: The Democratic Convention | |
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| Socialism at High Tide: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party | |
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| The Problem of the Progressive Era | |
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| From Greenbackers to Populists: The Response to Change | |
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| The Progressive Response | |
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| The Problem of Corporate Capitalism | |
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| Organized Efficiency: The Modern Corporation | |
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| Two Responses to Corporate Growth | |
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| A "Machine for Making Money": The Corporation and American Society | |
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| The Candidates Debate | |
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| The Procorporatists: Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Van Hise | |
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| The Anticorporatists: Robert La Follette, Louis Brandeis, and Woodrow Wilson | |
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| The Best of a Bad Lot: African American Options in 1912 | |
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| Neither a "Flubdub" nor Second Rate: William Howard Taft | |
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| Socialism as Progressivism: Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party | |
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| Epilogue: The Debate Continued | |
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| The Documents | |
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| The Procorporatists: Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Van Hise | |
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| The New Nationalism, August 31, 1910 | |
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| Making a New Platform, September 10, 1910 | |
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| Letters to Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Benjamin Barr Lindsay, and Chase Salmon Osborn, August 22, 1911, December 5, 1911, and January 18, 1912 | |
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| A Charter of Democracy, February 12, 1912 | |
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| Letters, October 21, 1911, and October 27, 1911 | |
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| For Chairman of the Convention, June 18, 1912 | |
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| A Confession of Faith, August 6, 1912 | |
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| The Senior Partner, September 8, 1912 | |
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| Letters to Mary Ella Lyon Swift, Florence Kelley, and Jane Addams, March 7, 1911, January 9, 1912, and ca. August 8, 1912 | |
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| Letter to Julian La Rose Harris, August 1, 1912 | |
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| Letters to Senator Robert M. La Follette, October 30, 1911, and November 21, 1911 | |
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| Letter to Charles R. Van Hise, June 4, 1912, and Charles R. Van Hise, from Concentration and Control, 1912 | |
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| The Anticorporatists: Robert M. La Follette, Louis D. Brandeis, and Woodrow Wilson | |
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| Speech at Jamestown, North Dakota, March 14, 1912 | |
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| Speech at Bismarck, North Dakota, March 14, 1912 | |
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| Letter to Senator Jonathan Bourne, January 2, 1911 | |
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| Letter to Blanche Morse, March 28, 1912 | |
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| The Only Way, September 17, 1912, and Pay Day, September 7, 1912 | |
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| Letter to Norman Hapgood, July 3, 1912 | |
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| Letter to Alfred Brandeis, August 28, 1912 | |
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| Correspondence, September 27, 1912, and September 30, 1912 | |
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| Letter to Arthur Norman Holcombe, September 11, 1912 | |
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| Trusts, Efficiency, and the New Party, September 14, 1912 | |
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| Speech at Buffalo, New York, September 2, 1912 | |
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| Speech at Sioux City, Iowa, September 17, 1912 | |
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| Speech at Pueblo, Colorado, October 7, 1912 | |
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| The Biggest Monopolies, October 9, 1912 | |
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| Diary, August 14, 1912 | |
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| Maud Malone Halts Wilson, October 20, 1912 | |
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| The Time, the Place, and the Girl, June 25, 1912 | |
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| Neither a "Flubdub" nor Second Rate: William Howard Taft | |
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| Speech at Nashua, New Hampshire, March 19, 1912 | |
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| Speech at the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 30, 1912 | |
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| Letters to Horace D. Taft and Charles F. Brooker, March 1, 1912, and March 5, 1912 | |
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| Speech at Elkton, Maryland, May 4, 1912 | |
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| He Eats 'Em Up-and Grows! September 19, 1910 | |
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| The Presidency, September 29, 1912 | |
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| Progressive: The Popular Label, October 6, 1912 | |
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| Socialism as Progressivism: Eugene V. Debs | |
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| Socialism Gives Only Cure for Trust Evils, November 25, 1911 | |
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| A Study of Competition, May 28, 1910 | |
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| Acceptance Speech, Undated | |
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| Opening Speech of the Campaign, August 10, 1912 | |
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| Platform, May 25, 1912 | |
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| Mr. Voter Beware..., November 2, 1912 | |
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| The Woman Question, January 13, 1912, and What Socialism Offers, September 28, 1912 | |
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| Letter to Eugene V. Debs, August 8, 1912 | |
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| Eugene V. Debs Says Moose Party Stole Socialist Planks, August 15, 1912, and Appeal to Reason, The Acid Test, September 21, 1912 | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| A 1912 Election Chronology (1877-1930) | |
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| Questions for Consideration | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |