Table of Contents
Cast of Characters ix
Introduction xix
Part I East Boston to Cambridge to Brookline 1
1 Dunganstown to East Boston 3
2 School Days 16
3 Starting Out 32
4 War 47
5 Making a Million 58
Part II Hollywood 83
6 "My Own Master in My Own Business" 85
7 Hollywood 105
8 Gloria and Rose 128
9 Last Exit from Hollywood 149
Part III Washington 165
10 On the Roosevelt Train 167
11 Waiting for the Call 185
12 To Washington 204
13 Reelecting Roosevelt 238
14 Maritime Commissioner 254
Part IV London 281
15 A Plainspoken Ambassador 283
16 A Rather Dreadful Homecoming 312
17 Munich 323
18 The Kennedy Plan 348
19 Sidelined and Censored 371
20 "This Country Is at War with Germany" 399
21 The Lives of Americans Are at Stake 408
22 Defeatist 427
23 The Fall of France 444
24 The Worst of Times 457
25 There's Hell to Pay Tonight 473
Part V Washington, but Briefly 487
26 Home Again 489
27 The Man Who Out-Hamleted Hamlet 505
Part VI Palm Beach and Hyannis Port 523
28 A Forced Retirement 525
29 War 538
30 "A Melancholy Business" 570
31 The Candidate's Father 591
32 Family Matters 610
33 "The Great Debate" 632
34 The Next Senator from Massachusetts 652
35 Retirement 671
36 Making Money and Giving It Away 692
37 The Catholic Candidate 709
38 Electing a President 726
39 "He Belongs to the Country" 749
40 "No!" 775
Acknowledgments 789
Notes 793
Bibliography of Works Cited 829
Index 835