Introduction: The paranoid republic
Part One: As above, so below
The arch and the cenotaph
"There is something earnest in all this, but the object is concealed"
Part Two: Deep-laid schemes
Fresh from the loins of the people
A piece of machinery, so to speak
Part Three: National indigestion
Abraham Lincoln's secret confidant
The man who threw the bomb
Part Four: Wonders of the invisible world
Beware the Siberian beetle
Part five: Behind the hieroglyphic streets
Attack of the lizard people!
Nothing is true, everything is permitted
Epilogue: Citizens' commissions.
