Food power: the rise and fall of the postwar American food system

Introduction: food power, the food network, and American security

Freedom from want: creating a postwar food system

Fixed stomachs and convenience foods: abundance and food in the 1950s

Freedom to farm: prosperity, security, and "the farm problem" in the 1950s

What to eat after an atomic bomb: deploying food power defensively

Food for peace and the war on hunger: food power in the 1960s

The world food crisis and the end of the postwar food system

Conclusion: the past, present, and future of world food problems.