Prologue -- Civil War, Childhood, Methodism -- The neck, Central High -- Medical School, Germany, Mulford -- Wedding, Argyrol, Marketing -- Bribes, Lawsuit, The Main Line -- Collecting, Glackens, Paris -- A buying spree -- Collecting mania -- Armory show, John Quinn, Vituperations -- Cultural ascent, American moderns, Judging art -- Dewey -- Democracy and education -- Factory life, Worker education -- Buermeyer, Practical psychology, A murder case -- War, A Polish study -- Wealth, Renoir and Cezanne -- Buying American, Art in the factory -- Philadelphia philistines, Birth of the foundation -- Planning a foundation, Young art in Paris -- Paul Guillaume -- De Chirico, Modigliani, Soutine, A first exhibition -- African art, Black culture -- Black rights, Black education -- New buildings, The collection -- The foundation opens, Education and the art in painting -- Democratic aesthetics, Form and meaning -- Universities, Thomas Munro, Europe, Cezanne and Seurat, Art education -- Failed alliances, 'The girls' and De Mazia, Demonstrations -- Ejecting elites, Fine Scotch -- The negro center, Foundation fellowships, Henry Hart -- Deaths, Zonite, Returning an O'Keeffe -- The dance, A double cross?, A Matisse book -- Great Depression, Art as experience, Renior -- Vollard, Cezanne's Bathers -- Crafts, Horace Pippin -- Ker-Feal, The Arboretum, Bertrand Russell -- The Saturday Evening Post, Firing Russell -- Failures, War -- Penn Redux, Haverford, Penn again, Sarah Lawrence, Lincoln University -- The end -- Epilogue -- A note on sources -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration credits -- Index.