First Transformation -- Marching on Washington -- "Everything Was Worth Doing" -- First Useful Gene: Bacillus thuringiensis and Its Many Inventors -- Gifts of God -- Genes That Love Poisons -- Triumphs of Tinkering -- Forces on Opposition -- Seed Wars -- Tomato That Ate Calgene -- Tremors of Anticipation -- Summers of Triumph, Summers of Discord -- Power Plays -- Backlash -- Wheels Come Off -- Deluge -- Global Claims -- Perched on a Precipiee -- Infinite Horizons

1. Food -- Biotechnology
2. Crops -- Genetic engineering
3. Agricultural biotechnology
4. Biotechnology industry -- United States
5. Food industry and trade -- United States
6. Genetically modified foods -- Government policy -- United States