A Note to the Reader; Table of Contents; Foreword; I History as Vocation; History as Vocation; The Hitchens Effect; The Toughest Job; Graduate Economics; Noam Chomsky and Academic History; The End of Sociology?; II History as criticism; James Agee, The Anarchist Sublime; What Happened to Sex Scandals?; Pity Warren Harding; The San Francisco Left; A Note on Anti-Americanism; In Dreams Begin Politics; Remembering Richard Hofstadter; Personal Pragmatism; Information Junkies; III History as Biography; The Big Discourse; The Deciders; No-Man's-Land: C. Wright Mills in England
