Watching darkness fall: FDR, his ambassadors, and the rise of Adolf Hitler
Prologue: Happy Days Are Here Again -- This is a Day of National Consecration -- A Small, Obscure Austrian House Painter -- The Striped-Pants Boys -- I Want You to Go to Germany as an Ambassador -- The Vehicle Occupied by Great Caesar's Ghost -- Some Changes Are in Order -- I Wonder If You Would Try to Get the President More Interested in Foreign Affairs -- I Am Much Too Fond of You All -- Just Think What the Career Boys Will Say! -- Ambassador Long Was Swell to Us -- Downhearted About Europe -- What a Mess It All Is! -- Without Doubt the Most Hair-Trigger Times -- If Men Were Christian, There Would Be No War -- Hypnotized by Mussolini -- Pack Up Your Furniture, the Dog, and the Servants -- I Hate War -- I Still Don't Like the European Outlook -- What a Grand Fight It Is Going to Be! -- Joe, Just Look at Your Legs -- Everybody Down the Line Will Be Sent to Siam -- May God . . . Prove That You Are Wrong -- Resistance and War Will Follow -- I Could Scarcely Believe Such Things Could Occur -- Methods, Short of War -- The Last Well-Known Man About Whom That Was Said -- My Mother Does Not Approve of Cocktails -- It's Come at Last-God Help Us -- I'm Tired, I Can't Take It -- One Mind Instead of Four Separate Minds -- Churchill Is the Best Man England Has -- My Mother Alice Who Met a Rabbit -- The Hand That Held the Dagger Has Struck it into the Back of Its Neighbor -- I've Told You, Eleanor, You Must Not Say That -- I Get Constant Reports of How Valuable You Are -- Your Boys Are Not Going to Be Sent into Any Foreign Wars -- We Will Talk About That and the Future Later -- He Can Talk to Churchill Like an Iowa Farmer -- We Americans Are Vitally Concerned in Your Defense of Freedom -- History Has Recorded Who Fired the First Shot -- A Day That Will Live in Infamy.