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Index
Cover
Colophon
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Author’s Note
PrologueSunday, March 5, 1933
Part One Lightweight Steel
Chapter One Security
Chapter Two “My Boy Franklin”
Chapter Three “Miss Nancy”
Chapter Four Eleanor and Sara
Chapter Five Dilettante
Chapter Six “The Medieval Gnome”
Chapter Seven The Operator
Chapter Eight The “Ghastly Affliction”
Chapter Nine Warm Springs Dress Rehearsal
Chapter Ten “I’ve Got to Be It Myself”
Part Two The Ascent: 1932
Chapter Eleven “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
Chapter Twelve “This Doesn’t Go for Above the Neck”
Chapter Thirteen “Try Something” for “the Forgotten Man”
Chapter Fourteen The Brain Trust
Chapter Fifteen The Hair-Splitter
Chapter Sixteen The “Corkscrew Candidate”
Chapter Seventeen Off the Reservation
Chapter Eighteen Flight to Chicago
Chapter Nineteen The Bonus Army
Chapter Twenty The Trial of Jimmy Walker
Chapter Twenty-one “Hang Hoover!”
Part Three The Crisis: Winter 1933
Chapter Twenty-two The Perfect Foil
Chapter Twenty-three Under the Mattress
Chapter Twenty-four “Wooden Roof” and Other Cabinetry
Chapter Twenty-five Nearly Martyred in Miami
Chapter Twenty-six “Damn the Secretary”
Chapter Twenty-seven “Gabriel Over the White House”
Chapter Twenty-eight The Hairy Hand
Chapter Twenty-nine Reluctant First Lady
Chapter Thirty “Like Hell I Will!”
Part Four The Hundred Days
Chapter Thirty-one “Fear Itself”
Chapter Thirty-two The Consecration
Chapter Thirty-three “An Injection of Adrenalin”
Chapter Thirty-four “Action Now”
Chapter Thirty-five That Temperament
Chapter Thirty-six Holiday Spirit
Chapter Thirty-seven “Surpassing Charm”
Chapter Thirty-eight That Voice
Chapter Thirty-nine “The Chief Croupier”
Chapter Forty Roosevelt’s “Tree Army”
Chapter Forty-one The Blue Eagle
Coda Social Security
Epilogue “Dr. New Deal”
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
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