Chapter 1. Paradise Lost: Misplacing America's middle class-the beginning
Chapter 2. The Invasion: A postwar middle-class miracle
Chapter 3. Chocolate Milk: First cracks in the façade
Chapter 4. Dream Stealer: The uninvited demand their rights
Chapter 5. Love/Haight: Youth in revolt
Chapter 6. The Three Uglies: Nixon's hydra of economic woes
Chapter 7. Flying the Hump: Surviving the Republican wreck
Chapter 8. Tall Paul and the Tamers: Reagan reconsidered
Chapter 9. The One Percent Problem: Not the invisible hand, but the invisible handshake
Chapter 10. The One Percent Solution: A time for wealth to lead the charge
Chapter 11. The Renaissance: Living a dream deferred
Chapter 12. The Zone: Confronting dragons of poverty and winning
Chapter 13. The March of the Black Middle Class: Return of economic segregation
Chapter 14. American Matriarchy: A new engine of the middle class
Chapter 15. The Latino Generation: An American super-minority
Chapter 16. G, Myself, and I: America's place in global manufacture
Chapter 17. LA Grippe: The United States of underemployment
Chapter 18. Back to Work: The new abnormal of job creation
Chapter 19. Middle Earth: The world's exploding middle class
Chapter 20. The Cyclone: High winds in the developing world
Chapter 21. America's Choice: Stay the course or restore our middle class by immersion in the emerging world
Chapter 22. Mojo Found: How you change everything
Notations: Sources and further reading
