CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

ONE     A Quaker Orphan on the Frontier

TWO     Cardinal Red

THREE     The Great Engineer

FOUR     The Great Humanitarian

FIVE     Samaritan to a Continent

SIX     Secretary of Commerce, Locomotive of the Economy

SEVEN     Into the White House

EIGHT     Getting a Grip on the Presidency

NINE     Holding a Finger in the Dike

TEN     Fighting the Depression

ELEVEN     Democracy Is a Harsh Employer

TWELVE     Challenging the New Deal

THIRTEEN     Politics and Diplomacy Before the Second Great War

FOURTEEN     The Maelstrom of War

FIFTEEN     The Truman Years

SIXTEEN     The Republicans Return to Power

SEVENTEEN     Tempest and Triumph

Photographs

Acknowledgments

Essay on Sources

Endnotes

Index