Contents

        Preface

PART ONE: THE GREAT PARADOX

  1.   Traveling to the Heart

  2.   “One Thing Good”

  3.   The Rememberers

  4.   The Candidates

  5.   The “Least Resistant Personality”

PART TWO: THE SOCIAL TERRAIN

  6.   Industry: “The Buckle in America’s Energy Belt”

  7.   The State: Governing the Market 4,000 Feet Below

  8.   The Pulpit and the Press: “The Topic Doesn’t Come Up”

PART THREE: THE DEEP STORY AND THE PEOPLE IN IT

  9.   The Deep Story

10.   The Team Player: Loyalty Above All

11.   The Worshipper: Invisible Renunciation

12.   The Cowboy: Stoicism

13.   The Rebel: A Team Loyalist with a New Cause

PART FOUR: GOING NATIONAL

14.   The Fires of History: The 1860s and the 1960s

15.   Strangers No Longer: The Power of Promise

16.   “They Say There Are Beautiful Trees”

        Acknowledgments

        Appendix A: The Research

        Appendix B: Politics and Pollution: National Discoveries from ToxMap

        Appendix C: Fact-Checking Common Impressions

        Endnotes

        Bibliography

        Index