Gumption: relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers

Introduction

Part 1. Freemasons. George Washington ; Benjamin Franklin ; James Madison ; Frederick Douglass

Part 2. Idealists. Theodore Roosevelt ; Frederick Law Olmsted ; Eleanor Roosevelt ; Tom Laughlin ; Wendell Berry ; Barney Frank ; Yoko Ono ; Michael Pollan

Part 3. Makers. Thomas Lie-Nielsen ; Nat Benjamin ; George Nakashima ; Carol Burnett ; Jeff Tweedy ; George Saunders ; Laurie Anderson ; Willie Nelson ; Conan O'Brien

Epilogue

Further Reading By Subject

Acknowledgments

Credits.