On first coming to Cambridge -- Growing up in special places -- Harvard in the 1930s -- American agriculture and the new deal -- Getting ready for Keynes -- Going to the temple -- Moving on--toward war -- Now comes war -- Luce, Keynes, and "The American century" -- Surveying the consequences of war -- A new war beginning -- Back to Harvard: new economics and new voices -- Stevenson and the liberals -- The affluent society: parting company with the mainstream -- Kennedy, Sputnik, and "liberal growthmanship" -- On the new frontier -- India -- Tragedy, triumph, tragedy -- The new industrial state -- Collisions -- Galbraith and Nixon: two Keynesian presidents -- The price of hypocrisy -- The great unraveling -- The economics of joy -- Joy fades -- Century's end -- The Galbraith legacy.