Map
viii
Author's Note xiii
Prologue This Brief Paradise From Ash Heaps to Utopia xvii
PART ONE THE DEVIL TO PAY
1 "Why don't you do it, Daddy?"
3(18)
2 MR. New York
21(10)
3 A Voluntary Exile
31(16)
4 The Gardenia of the Law
47(8)
5 New York World's Fair, inc
55(22)
6 The $8 Murder
77(10)
7 Why Have a Fair?
87(10)
8 106 Degrees in the Shade
97(10)
9 Panic in Times Square
107(10)
10 Selling the Fair
117(14)
11 "Folks, you Ain't seen Nothing Yeti"
131(10)
PART TWO DAWN OF A NEW DAY 1939: THE FIRST SEASON
12 "They Come With Joyous Song"
141(16)
13 Blackout
157(10)
14 "I Have Seen the Future"
167(14)
15 Visions and Dreamscapes
181(14)
16 Palestine vs. Pancho Villa
195(18)
17 Germany Yesterday-Germany Tomorrow
213(12)
18 Royal Flush
225(8)
19 "I Never Thought of That!"
233(14)
20 "You Tell `Em, Mickeyi"
247(12)
21 The Storm Center of the World
259(14)
22 "S'Long, Folks!"
273(12)
PART THREE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM 1940: THE SECOND SEASON
23 "Hello, Folks!"
285(10)
24 "This Looks Like the Real Goods"
295(18)
25 Aftermath
313(10)
26 Curtains
323(12)
27 Whalen, Gravisnas, Forbine, and Nobility
335(8)
EPILOGUE ASHES TO ASHES
343(8)
Acknowledgments 351(4)
Notes and Sources 355(28)
Bibliography 383(4)
Index 387