Table of Contents
Prologue: Endgame, January 20, 1957 ix
Part I
Chapter 1 Enter Boris, 1891-1914 3
Chapter 2 Broken Chords, 1914-22 11
Chapter 3 The Golden Land, 1922-25 21
Chapter 4 The Entertainer, 1925-33 33
Chapter 5 Cover Stories, 1933-34 41
Chapter 6 Paradise and Its Discontents, 1934-35 47
Chapter 7 Gateway to Hollywood, 1935-36 61
Chapter 8 A Double Life, 1936-38 69
Chapter 9 Declaring Independence, 1938-42 79
Chapter 10 Turnabout, 1942-43 95
Chapter 11 Chord and Discord, 1943-44 111
Chapter 12 Spook's Ball, 1944-45 123
Chapter 13 Getting to Carnegie Hall, 1945-47 137
Part II
Chapter 14 Double or Nothing, 1947 149
Chapter 15 Boris Loves Money! 1947-48 159
Chapter 16 Pontifex Maximus, 1948-49 171
Chapter 17 Inside the Temple, 1949 181
Chapter 18 Believing In Tears, 1949-50 195
Chapter 19 My Own FBI, 1950-51 209
Chapter 20 Atomic Bonds, 1951-52 225
Chapter 21 In Chains, 1952-54 241
Chapter 22 The Agent in Black, 1954-55 251
Chapter 23 A Cooked Goose, 1955-57 263
Chapter 24 Above the Fold, 1957-63 275
Notes on Sources 295
Index 315