Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Political beginnings
  • In the House of Representatives
  • The Reed Congress and the new national issues
  • The crucial period of my public life
  • Six years' struggle with Wisconsin bosses
  • My first term as Governor and the problems I had to meet
  • How we passed the railroad taxation laws
  • Progressive government produces business prosperity: what was accomplished in Wisconsin
  • Alone in the Senate: experiences with Roosevelt: railroad rate legislation
  • Reinforcements: a national progressive movement
  • Why I became a candidate for the presidency, Taft'a availability, a complete history of Roosevelt's course after his return from Africa
  • Formation of the organized progressive movement, pressure for a real progressive candidate
  • The true history of the campaign of 1912 for the Republican nomination to the presidency
  • Why I continued as a candidate, Roosevelt never a progressive, his record
  • Appendix: Speech of Robert M. La Follette delivered at the annual banquet of the periodical publishers' association.