Part one: The great paradox
The "least resistant personality"
Part two: The social terrain
Industry: "the buckle in America's energy belt"
The state: governing the market 4,000 feet below
The pulpit and the press: "the topic doesn't come up
Part three: The deep story and the people in it
The team player: loyalty above all
The worshipper: invisible renunciation
The rebel: a team loyalist with a new cause
Part four: Going national
The fires of history: the 1860s and the 1960s
Strangers no longer: the power of promise
"They say there are beautiful trees."