CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION

INTRODUCTION

1. The Colonies

2. The 1800s Arrive

3. Before the Civil War

4. The Mid-1800s

5. The Nineteenth-Century Finale

6. Turn of the Century

7. The Twentieth Century Arrives

8. The 1920s

9. The 1930s

10. The War

11. The 1950s

12. The 1960s

13. The 1970s

14. The 1980s

15. The 1990s

16. Into the Twenty-First Century

17. Onward and Upward

PHOTOS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

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ALSO BY GAIL COLLINS