Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
1 "A Modern Galahad" 3
2 "We were Fools" 24
3 "Where is My World?" 35
4 "You Haven't Got the Votes" 53
5 "This War Has Come Home to Me" 69
6 "I am Almost Literally Walking on Eggs" 87
7 "Paranoia can be Catching" 94
8 "The Art of Manipulation" 115
9 "Is This War Our Concern?" 126
10 "Why do we Not Defend Her?" 139
11 "The Greatest of All our Ambassadors" 151
12 "The People Saved the Day" 170
13 "Congress is Going to Raise Hell" 184
14 "An American First, and a Republican Afterward" 196
15 "The Yanks are Not Coming" 220
16 "The Bubonic Plague Among Writers" 242
17 "A National Disgrace" 252
18 "Well, Boys, Britain's Broke" 264
19 'A Race Against Time" 288
20 'A Traitorous Point of View" 309
21 "Der Führer Thanks You for Your Loyalty" 330
22 "Where is this Crisis?" 341
23 "Propaganda … with a Very Thick Coating of Sugar" 359
24 "Setting the Ground for Anti-Semitism" 375
25 "He Was Not Going to Lead the Country into War" 393
26 "The Greatest Scoop in History" 408
27 "Let's Lick Hell Out of Them" 424
28 Aftermath 438
Acknowledgments 463
Notes 465
Bibliography 509
Index 519