Introduction
Part I. Rearguard Reformer
The City of Aqua Pura (1896) The Home-Coming of Colonel Hucks (1896)
The King of Boyville (1896)
A Typical Kansas Community (1897)
Patriotism and Things (1899)
The Meaning of the Fair (1899)
The Man on Horseback (1899)
The Greatest of These (1900)
Scribes and Pharisees (1905)
The Coming of the Leisure Class (1905)
Emporia and New York (1907)
A Slow Process (1907)
A Look Ahead (1910)
Standing Together (1911)
As a Town Thinketh (1913)
The Country Newspaper (1916)
The League and Things (1919)
Part II. Mid-Victorian Modern
We Who Are About to Die (1921) The Other Side of Main Street (1921)
Will They Fool Us Twice? (1921)
What’s the Matter with America? (1922)
Emporia and the Strike (1922)
Blood of the Conquerors (1923)
The Dawn of a Great Tomorrow (1923)
A Brave Man (1923)
A Holy American Day (1924)
Klanism vs. Americanism (1924)
Forward or Backward (1924)
Forward or Backward (1924)
At the Crossroads (1924)
Annihilate the Klan! (1925)
Lyon County (1926)
Al Smith, City Feller (1926)
The Country Town Issue (1928)
The Country Editor Speaks (1929)
If I Were a Dictator (1931)
Index