Prologue: Leap Year 1(10)
PART I Dementia Americana
Chapter One The Boy and the Machine
11(20)
Chapter Two Thin Ice
31(24)
Chapter Three Mysteries of the Unknown Parts
55(16)
Chapter Four Middle Earth and the Night Riders
71(24)
Chapter Five Ultima Thule
95(20)
PART II To Conquer Time and Space
Chapter Six The Man Bird
115(28)
Chapter Seven Heat
143(20)
Chapter Eight The Color Line
163(22)
Chapter Nine A Month of Late-Summer Days
185(24)
PART III The Golden Age
Chapter Ten The Certainty of the Future
209(26)
Chapter Eleven The Path of Deliverance and Safety
235(18)
Chapter Twelve The Modern Definition of Life
253(30)
Acknowledgments and Sources 283(10)
Index 293