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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Epigraph
Prologue: One Hogan Place
Part I: Arrival
1. “Between Profit and Disaster” 1815–1866
2. At the Edge 1866–1870
3. “A Declaration of Independence” 1870–1879
4. “True Happiness” 1880–1883
5. “43, 42, 41” 1884–1892
6. “The Temple of Humanity” 1892–1898
Part II: Ascent
7. Among the Plutocrats 1898–1900
8. “A Modest Man” 1896–1903
9. “Let Me Have the Boy” 1903–1911
10. Wilson’s Call Spring–Winter 1911
11. Money Harvest 1912–1913
12. “I Want to Be a Farmer” 1912–1914
13. “Something Is Brewing” Winter–Spring 1914
14. “Guns of August” Spring–Fall 1914
15. “You Can See and Feel the Hatred” Winter 1914–Spring 1915
16. “A Campaign of Race Extermination” Spring–Fall 1915
17. “We Are Through with Them” 1915
18. “A Tremendous Asset” 1915
Part III: War
19. Franklin and Henry 1916–1933
20. Henry & Franklin, Elinor & Eleanor 1922–1928
21. Albany 1928–1932
22. “The Smell of Revolution Was in the Air” Winter–Spring 1933
23. “He Could Trust Me Absolutely” Spring–Fall 1933
24. “To Swim with the Tide and Not Sink” Winter–Fall 1934
25. “We Have Just Begun to Fight” 1932–1934
26. “I Went Over Him and Under Him and Around Him” Fall 1936–Spring 1939
27. “About the Future of Democracy and the World” Fall 1937–Winter 1940
28. Again, at the Brink 1939–1940
29. “Not Far from Armageddon” 1940–1941
30. At Sea Winter 1942–Winter 1943
31. Civilization Fails the Test Summer 1942–Fall 1943
32. “War Rumor Inspired by Fear” 1942–1943
33. “Courage First” Fall 1943–Winter 1944
34. In the Med: April 20 Winter 1944–Spring 1944
35. “And I Mean the German People” Spring 1944
36. “Unnatural, Unchristian, and Unnecessary” August 1944
37. “For 48 Hours, I Was on the Top of the Heap” Fall 1944
38. In the Pacific: “Undivided Attention” Summer 1944–Spring 1945
39. “Henry, I Am with You 100 Percent” April 1945
40. Trouble with Harry Spring 1945
41. In the Pacific: “A Quiet Station” Spring–Summer 1945
42. Big Man Falling Spring–Summer 1945
43. Home Is the Sailor Fall 1945–Winter 1946
Part IV: The Sovereign District
44. After the Fall 1945–1948
45. “No Sense of Proportion” 1946–1949
46. “A Little Righteous Indignation” 1948–1952
47. “This Thing He Married” 1950–1955
48. “To Hell with It” 1959–1961
49. “You Should Have Known Me When I Was Somebody” 1952–1967
50. Bobby and Bob 1961–1964
51. “Our Thing” 1957–1963
52. “A Lehman Candidate” 1962
53. “White Whale” 1962–1964
54. After Dallas 1964
55. The Junkman 1966–1968
56. “Joe Bananas” 1964–1985
57. Amid Darkness, “Sunlight” 1967–1970
58. “Sinewy Fingers” 1969
Part V: The Boss
59. “A Job That I Know” 1970–1974
60. Riot 1975–1978
61. City on Edge 1977
62. “The Color of His Skin” 1978
63. “Failure After Failure” 1983–1989
64. “To Change an Industry” 1989–1991
65. “A New Endgame” 1992–2015
66. “The Bank of Crooks and Criminals International” 1992–2019
67. “Either…Stupid or Venal” 1989–1992
68. “Only Good People” 1992
69. The Jogger 1989
70. “A Brilliant Job” 1989–2002
71. “One Good Thing” 2002–2003
72. “No Guile” 2003–2014
73. “The Price of Liberty” 1995–2009
74. “ ‘Judas’ Morgy” 2009
75. “On the Outside” 2011–2018
76. “The Good Life” 2019
Epilogue: East Eighty-sixth Street
Photo Insert
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Illustration Credits
Index
Other Titles
About the Author
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