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.