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ALSO BY DAVID NASAW
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
CAST OF CHARACTERS
INTRODUCTION
PART I: East Boston to Cambridge to Brookline
One: DUNGANSTOWN TO EAST BOSTON
Two: SCHOOL DAYS
Three: STARTING OUT
Four: WAR
Five: MAKING A MILLION
PART II: Hollywood
Six: “MY OWN MASTER IN MY OWN BUSINESS”
Seven: HOLLYWOOD
Eight: GLORIA AND ROSE
Nine: LAST EXIT FROM HOLLYWOOD
PART III: Washington
Ten: ON THE ROOSEVELT TRAIN
Eleven: WAITING FOR THE CALL
Twelve: TO WASHINGTON
Thirteen: REELECTING ROOSEVELT
Fourteen: MARITIME COMMISSIONER
PART IV: London
Fifteen: A PLAINSPOKEN AMBASSADOR
Sixteen: A RATHER DREADFUL HOMECOMING
Seventeen: MUNICH
Eighteen: THE KENNEDY PLAN
Nineteen: SIDELINED AND CENSORED
Twenty: “THIS COUNTRY IS AT WAR WITH GERMANY”
Twenty-one: THE LIVES OF AMERICANS ARE AT STAKE
Twenty-two: DEFEATIST
Twenty-three: THE FALL OF FRANCE
Twenty-four: THE WORST OF TIMES
Twenty-five: THERE’S HELL TO PAY TONIGHT
PART V: Washington, but Briefly
Twenty-six: HOME AGAIN
Twenty-seven: THE MAN WHO OUT-HAMLETED HAMLET
PART VI: Palm Beach and Hyannis Port
Twenty-eight: A FORCED RETIREMENT
Twenty-nine: WAR
Thirty: “A MELANCHOLY BUSINESS”
Thirty-one: THE CANDIDATE’S FATHER
Thirty-two: FAMILY MATTERS
Thirty-three: “THE GREAT DEBATE”
Thirty-four: THE NEXT SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS
Thirty-five: RETIREMENT
Thirty-six: MAKING MONEY AND GIVING IT AWAY
Thirty-seven: THE CATHOLIC CANDIDATE
Thirty-eight: ELECTING A PRESIDENT
Thirty-nine: “HE BELONGS TO THE COUNTRY”
Forty: “NO!”
PHOTOGRAPHS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
INDEX
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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