The Book that Changed America: How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation

Contents: 

• Origins. The book from across the Atlantic
• Gray's botany
• Beetles, birds, theories
• Word of mouth
• Making a stir
• A night at the Lyceum
• The nick of time
• Struggles. Bones of contention
• Agassiz
• The what-is-it?
• A spirited conflict
• Into the vortex
• Tree of life
• A jolt of recognition
• Wildfires
• Adaptations. Discord in Concord
• Moods
• Meditations in a garden
• The succession of forest trees
• Race of the Old World
• A cold shudder
• Transformations. At Down House
• The ghost of John Brown
• In the transcendental graveyard