| Preface | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Ch. 1 | The Malleability of American Liberalism and the Making of Public Policy | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The Republican Ascendancy and the Crash: Associative Undercurrents in a Conservative Era, 1921-1932 | 30 |
| Ch. 3 | Trial and Error: Science, Technology, and Economic Policy in the First Roosevelt Administration, 1933-1936 | 62 |
| Ch. 4 | Breaking Bottlenecks and Blockades: The Heyday of Reform Liberalism, 1937-1940, and Its Postwar Consequences | 83 |
| Ch. 5 | Old Fights, New Accommodations: Wartime Experiments and the Demise of Reform Liberalism, 1940-1945 | 117 |
| Ch. 6 | Groping toward Management: Science, Technology, and Macro-and Microeconomic Policy, 1945-1950 | 145 |
| Ch. 7 | "The Crescendo of Hideous Invention": The National Security State Comes of Age, 1945-1953 | 175 |
| Ch. 8 | The Past in the Present: The "Hybrid" in the Cold War and Beyond | 206 |
| Bibliography | 235 |
| Index | 259 |
