Prologue: The Joshua Generation 3(26)
Part One
A Complex Fate
29(40)
Surface and Undertow
69(29)
Nobody Knows My Name
98(27)
Part Two
Black Metropolis
125(57)
Ambition
182(37)
A Narrative of Ascent
219(40)
Part Three
Somebody Nobody Sent
259(48)
Black Enough
307(27)
The Wilderness Campaign
334(21)
Reconstruction
355(29)
A Righteous Wind
384(33)
Part Four
A Slight Madness
417(50)
The Sleeping Giant
467(29)
In the Racial Funhouse
496(21)
The Book of Jeremiah
517(24)
Part Five
``How Long? Not Long''
541(20)
To the White House
561(20)
Epilogue 581(6)
Debts and Sources 587(6)
Notes 593(24)
Bibliograpby 617(8)
Index 625