An eye-opening history evoking the disruptive first decade of the twenty-first century in America.

Introduction -- From dot-com to dot-bomb -- Dubya -- 9/11 -- Scandals of the decade -- The Iraq war -- Katrina -- A nation of minorities -- Gay in America -- The national pastime -- A smaller world -- The new retirement -- The new urbanism and the housing bubble -- The great recession -- The 2008 election -- Obama -- The Tea Party strikes back -- History is not over.