| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| Introductory | ix-x | |
| I. | Land of Orange-Groves and Jails | 1 |
| II. | The Adventure of the University Club | 8 |
| III. | In Which I Get Arrested | 13 |
| IV. | The Empire of the Black Hand | 19 |
| V. | The Schools of the “Times” | 22 |
| VI. | The Teachers’ Soviets | 26 |
| VII. | A Prayer for Freedom | 32 |
| VIII. | The Price of Independence | 36 |
| IX. | The Regime of Reciprocity | 40 |
| X. | The Spy System | 44 |
| XI. | Lies for Children | 50 |
| XII. | The Schools of Mammon | 54 |
| XIII. | The Tammany Tiger | 59 |
| XIV. | God and Mammon | 62 |
| XV. | Honest Graft | 66 |
| XVI. | A Letter to Woodrow Wilson | 72 |
| XVII. | An Arrangement of Little Bits | 77 |
| XVIII. | The Luskers | 81 |
| XIX. | To Henrietta Rodman | 87 |
| XX. | Melodrama in Chicago | 94 |
| XXI. | Continuous Performance | 98 |
| XXII. | The Incorporate Tax-Dodging Creatures | 102 |
| XXIII. | The Superintendent of Trombones | 109 |
| XXIV. | The City of French Restaurants | 113 |
| XXV. | The University Gang | 119 |
| XXVI. | The Ward Leader | 125 |
| XXVII. | The Romeo and Juliet Stunt | 130 |
| XXVIII. | The Inventor of Five Sciences | 135 |
| XXIX. | The Land of Lumber | 140 |
| XXX. | The Anaconda’s Lair | 146 |
| XXXI. | The Little Anacondas | 151 |
| XXXII. | Colorado Culture | 154 |
| XXXIII. | The Domain of King Coal | 159 |
| XXXIV. | The Homestead of the Free | 164 |
| XXXV. | Is a Teacher a Citizen? | 167 |
| XXXVI. | Introducing Comrade Thompson | 173 |
| XXXVII. | Millers and Militarism | 179 |
| XXXVIII. | Newberry Pie | 184 |
| XXXIX. | Beets and Celery | 186 |
| XL. | Boston in Bondage | 191 |
| XLI. | The Open Shop for Culture | 195 |
| XLII. | Corrupt and Contented | 203 |
| XLIII. | The Scenes of My Childhood | 209 |
| XLIV. | The Brewer’s Daughter-in-Law | 212 |
| XLV. | An Autocracy of Politicians | 216 |
| XLVI. | The Calibre of Congressmen | 221 |
| XLVII. | The Local Machines | 224 |
| XLVIII. | The Steam Roller | 228 |
| XLIX. | The Dispensers of Prominence | 234 |
| L. | A Plot Against Democracy | 240 |
| LI. | The Plot Fails | 244 |
| LII. | Mormon Magic | 249 |
| LIII. | The Funeral of Democracy | 253 |
| LIV. | The Fruits of the Sowing | 258 |
| LV. | Teachers to the Rear | 263 |
| LVI. | Bread and Circuses | 269 |
| LVII. | Schools for Strike-Breakers | 275 |
| LVIII. | The National Spies’ Association | 279 |
| LIX. | Babbitts and Bolsheviks | 284 |
| LX. | The Schools of Socony | 290 |
| LXI. | The Riot Department | 296 |
| LXII. | The Blindfold School of Patriotism | 301 |
| LXIII. | Professor Facing Both-Ways | 307 |
| LXIV. | Poison Pictures | 312 |
| LXV. | The Book Business | 315 |
| LXVI. | Ten Per Cent Commissions | 320 |
| LXVII. | The Superintendent-Makers | 324 |
| LXVIII. | The Church Conspiracy | 330 |
| LXIX. | Catholicism and the Schools | 334 |
| LXX. | The Practical Church Administrator | 341 |
| LXXI. | Faith and Modern Thought | 344 |
| LXXII. | The Schools of Steel | 349 |
| LXXIII. | The Schools of Oil | 353 |
| LXXIV. | The Country Geese | 357 |
| LXXV. | The Schools of Snobbery | 362 |
| LXXVI. | A School Survey | 369 |
| LXXVII. | The Educational Mills | 377 |
| LXXVIII. | Descensus Averno | 381 |
| LXXIX. | The Teacher’s Job | 385 |
| LXXX. | Teachers’ Terror | 389 |
| LXXXI. | The School Serfs | 395 |
| LXXXII. | The Teachers’ Union | 402 |
| LXXXIII. | The Teachers’ Magna Charta | 406 |
| LXXXIV. | Workers’ Education | 410 |
| LXXXV. | The Goose-step March | 417 |
| LXXXVI. | The Goose-step Advance | 423 |
| LXXXVII. | The Goose-step Double-quick | 428 |
| LXXXVIII. | The Goose-step Review | 432 |
| LXXXIX. | The Call to Action | 440 |