From the Book - [First edition].
Setting up the New Deal. President Roosevelt: Fireside chat on "The forgotten man" ; FDR on government's role in the economy ; Herbert Hoover speaks against the New Deal ; Letter from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt ; President Roosevelt: Fireside chat outlining the New Deal ; John Maynard Keynes: An open letter to President Roosevelt ; Letter-report concerning the Tennessee Valley ; FDR on Social Security ; Speech against the president's "court packing" plan ; President Roosevelt: Fireside chat on the current recession ; The Hatch Act
Unemployment and relief. Bumming in California ; United we eat - the phenomenon of unemployed leagues ; Letter from a Dust Bowl survivor ; Letter regarding assistance to the poor ; Memories of the Flint sit-down strike ; It's a great life in the CCC ; I'd rather not be on relief ; What REA service means to our farm home ; My hopes for the CCC
Women, minorities, and youth. Women on the breadlines ; Eleanor Roosevelt: what ten million women want ; Eleanor Roosevelt on women and the vote ; The repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican Americans ; The hurricane of 1932 in Puerto Rico ; A New Deal for American Indians ; Indians at work ; A Negro in the CCC ; Letter regarding the needs of Puerto Ricans in New York ; Plea from a Scottsboro boy ; Dear Mrs. Roosevelt ; Our jobless youth: a warning ; What does American democracy mean to me?
The Bonus Army. Herbert Hoover to Reed Smoot regarding the Bonus Loan Bill ; Attack on the Bonus Army ; Veterans march to Washington
Foreign policy. Henry Stimson to Senator Borah regarding the Nine-Power Treaty ; Criticism of the Neutrality Act ; Neutrality Act of 1935 ; Defense of the Neutrality Act ; Address delivered by the Secretary of State ; Winston Churchill: The lights are going out in Europe ; Winston Churchill: A hush over Europe ; Charles Lindbergh: Neutrality and war
Culture, crime, and more. The national anthem established: The Star Spangled Banner ; What I knew about John Dillinger ; The Hindenburg disaster ; From the Federal Writers' Project: Cape Cod Pilot ; On The War of the Worlds radio broadcast ; Lou Gehrig farewell to baseball.
