Eighteen full and lengthy selections from Margaret Leech, Helen Hunt Jackson, Edward Bellamy, Frederick Jackson Turner, Andy Adams, Jane Addams, Lincoln Steffens, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Upton Sinclair, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Ruth McKenney, John Steinbeck, Henry Roth, Ralph Ellison, the Port Huron Statement, the Walker Report, and Greil Marcus.

The late Robert D. Marcus was Professor of History at SUNY, Brockport, from 1983-2000.