Introduction
PART I: SUFFERING
Stepping forward: from inauguration as governor, January 1, 1929 to the October crash
Economic plague: October 1929 to campaign Summer 1932
Surge to power: November elections 1932 to Roosevelt's inauguration, March 1933
Action now: the hundred days, March-June 1933
New frontiers: Summer 1933 to the midterm elections, November 1934
Getting the habit: midterm elections 1934 to Summer 1936 party conventions
PART II: ENDURANCE
Crest of the wave: FDR's campaign of 1936 to Christmas 1937
Facing the world: a super island-state in the mid-1930s
Faith and maintenance: January to Summer 1938
Turning points: reforms of Summer 1938 to a new Congress, January 1939
Spark to flame: "Munich" in Autumn 1938 to war in Europe, September 1939
Line of fire: war in September 1939 to attack in Western Europe, Mary 1940
PART III: HOPE
Devotees of force: Blitzkrieg of May 1940 to FDR's inauguration, January 1941
Eleventh hour: inauguration 1941 to Pearl Harbor, December 7
New extremes: attack at Pearl Harbor to November 1942 midterm elections
Washington wars: Operation Torch, November 1942, to the coal strikes, November 1943
Hard pounding: Stalin in Tehran, November 1943, to D-Day, June 1944
Long shadows: Operation Overlord, Summer 1944, to FDR's death, April 1945
Epilogue.