Contents

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: “Lady Great Heart”

Chapter One: “We All Go Ahead Together, or We All Go Down Together”

Chapter Two: “You Cannot Just Sit and Talk About It, You Have to Do Something”

Chapter Three: Tea and Hot Dogs: The Royal Visit

Chapter Four: “We Must Think of the Greatest Good for the Greatest Number”

Chapter Five: “If They Perish, We Perish Sooner or Later”

Chapter Six: “We Have to Fight with Our Minds”

Chapter Seven: Red Scare, Refugees, and Racism

Chapter Eight: The Politician and the Agitator: New Beginnings

Chapter Nine: Radical Youth and Refugees: Winter–Spring 1940

Chapter Ten: “When You Go to War, You Cease to Solve the Problems of Peace”: March–June 1940

Chapter Eleven: “If Democracy Is to Survive, It Must Be Because It Meets the Needs of the People”

Chapter Twelve: “The World Rightly Belongs to Those Who Really Care”: The Convention of 1940

Chapter Thirteen: War and The Moral Basis of Democracy

Chapter Fourteen: “Defense Is Not a Matter of What You Get, But of What You Give”

Chapter Fifteen: “Heroism Is Always a Thrilling Thing”: The Politics of Race

Chapter Sixteen: “Isolationism Is Impossible”: The Politics of Rescue

Chapter Seventeen: “To Know Me Is a Terrible Thing”: Friendship, Loyalties, and Alliances

Chapter Eighteen: “Golden Footprints”: A Permanent Bond in War and Peace

Chapter Nineteen: “The White Heron of the One Flight”: Travels in the Pacific and Beyond

Epilogue: ER’s Legacy: Human Rights

PHOTOGRAPHS

LIST OF ARCHIVES

NOTE ON SOURCES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOTES

INDEX