Chapter I: Book I: What the People Expect of the People

I Gist 3
II The Lonesomest Job on Earth 4
III The President and the Ghost 6
IV Real Folks and the Ghost 12
V The Ghost Receives an Invitation 16
VI What a Body for the Ghost Would be Like 20
VII The Ghost gets Down to Business 25
VIII Three Rights of Man in a Democracy--The Right to Think 27
IX The Right to be Waited On 32
X The Right to Whisper 36
XI The Right to Whisper Together 39
XII The Right to Trust Somebody 41
XIII The Right to Vote All Day 46
XIV The Skilled Consumer 48
XV Sample Democracies 51
XVI The Town Pendulum 54
XVII The National Listening Machine 58
XVIII How the National Listening Machine Will Work 62
XIX Making a Right Start 64
XX Up to the People 66
XXI The Way for a Nation to Speak Up 68