Cast of Characters ix
Introduction xix
Part I East Boston to Cambridge to Brookline
1(82)
One Dunganstown to East Boston
3(13)
Two School Days
16(16)
Three Starting Out
32(15)
Four War
47(11)
Five Making a Million
58(25)
Part II Hollywood
83(82)
Six "My Own Master in My Own Business"
85(20)
Seven Hollywood
105(23)
Eight Gloria and Rose
128(21)
Nine Last Exit from Hollywood
149(16)
Part III Washington
165(116)
Ten On the Roosevelt Train
167(18)
Eleven Waiting for the Call
185(19)
Twelve To Washington
204(34)
Thirteen Reelecting Roosevelt
238(16)
Fourteen Maritime Commissioner
254(27)
Part IV London
281(206)
Fifteen A Plainspoken Ambassador
283(29)
Sixteen A Rather Dreadful Homecoming
312(11)
Seventeen Munich
323(25)
Eighteen The Kennedy Plan
348(23)
Nineteen Sidelined and Censored
371(28)
Twenty "This Country Is at War with Germany"
399(9)
Twenty-one The Lives of Americans Are at Stake
408(19)
Twenty-two Defeatist
427(17)
Twenty-three The Fall of France
444(13)
Twenty-four The Worst of Times
457(16)
Twenty-five There's Hell to Pay Tonight
473(14)
Part V Washington, but Briefly
487(36)
Twenty-six Home Again
489(16)
Twenty-seven The Man Who Out-Hamleted Hamlet
505(18)
Part VI Palm Beach and Hyannis Port
523(266)
Twenty-eight A Forced Retirement
525(13)
Twenty-nine War
538(32)
Thirty "A Melancholy Business"
570(21)
Thirty-one The Candidate's Father
591(19)
Thirty-two Family Matters
610(22)
Thirty-three "The Great Debate"
632(20)
Thirty-four The Next Senator from Massachusetts
652(19)
Thirty-five Retirement
671(21)
Thirty-six Making Money and Giving It Away
692(17)
Thirty-seven The Catholic Candidate
709(17)
Thirty-eight Electing a President
726(23)
Thirty-nine "He Belongs to the Country"
749(26)
Forty "No!"
775(14)
Acknowledgments 789(4)
Notes 793(36)
Bibliography of Works Cited 829(6)
Index 835