pt. one. The great paradox. Traveling to the heart ; "One thing good" ; The rememberers ; The candidates ; The "least resistant personality"
pt. two. The social terrain. Industry : "the buckle in America's energy belt" ; The state : governing the market 4,000 feet below ; The pulpit and the press : "the topic doesn't come up"
pt. three. The deep story and the people in it. The deep story ; The team player : loyalty above all ; The worshipper : invisible renunciation ; The cowboy : stoicism ; The rebel : a team loyalist with a new cause
pt. four. Going national. The fires of history : the 1860s and the 1960s ; Strangers no longer : the power of promise ; "They say there are beautiful trees"
Appendix B. Politics and pollution : national discoveries from ToxMap
Appendix C. Fact-checking common impressions.