Part I. The conjuring of America: 1517-1789
I believe, therefore I am right: the Protestants
All that glitters: the gold-seekers
Building our own private heaven on Earth: the puritans
The God-given freedom to believe in God
Imaginary friends and enemies: the early satanic panics
The first me century: religion gets American
Meanwhile, in the 18th century reality-based community
Part II. United States of amazing: the 1800s
The all-American fan fiction of Joseph Smith, prophet
Quack nation: magical but modern ?
Fantastic business: the gold rush inflection point
In search of monsters to destroy: the conspiracy-theory habit
The war between states of mind
Ten million little houses on the prairie
Part III. A long arc bending toward reason: 1900-1960
The biggest backlash: brand new old-time religion
The business of America is show business
Big rock candy mountains: utopia in the suburbs and the sun
The 1950s seemed so normal
Part IV. Big bang: the 1960s and 70s
Big bang: the intellectuals
Big bang: politics and government and conspiracies
Big bang: living in a land of entertainment
Part V. Fantasyland scales: from the 1980s through the turn of the century
Making make-believe more realistic and real life more make-believe
Forever young: kids r us syndrome
The Reagan era and the start of the digital age
American religion from the turn of the millennium
Our wilder christianities: belief and practice
America versus the godless civilized world: why are we so exceptional?
Magical but not necessarily christian, spiritual but not religious
Blue-chip witch doctors: the re-enchantment of medicine
How the mainstream enabled fantasyland: squishies, cynics and believers
unless it picks my pocket or break my leg
Part VI. The problem with fantasyland: from the 1980s to the present and beyond
The inmates running the asylum decide monsters are everywhere
Reality is a conspiracy: the x-filing of America
Mad as hell, the new voice of the people
When the GOP went off the rails
Final fantasy-industrial complex
Our inner children? They're going to Disney World!
As fantasyland goes, so goes the nation.
