Table of Contents
Prologue 3
Part I Political Apprenticeship
I Kidnapped into Politics 9
II In the Big Puddle 22
III "I Hate War; I Have Seen War" 41
IV "Not a Landslide but an Earthquake" 54
Part II The Long Wait
V Fate Deals a Hand 71
VI "Good Neighborman" 84
Part III Good Neighborman to New York
VII Back in the Main Channel 111
VIII "The Objectives Were the Same" 118
IX "I Pledge You to a New Deal" 143
Part IV Good Neighborman to the Nation
X "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself" 151
XI "One Hundred Great Days" 156
XII He Kept Dealing New Hands 183
XIII Straights and Flushes and Lots of Deuces 207
XIV The Court Ordered the Old Deck 233
XV Declaration of Economic Independence 264
XVI "I See One Third of a Nation III-housed, III-clad, III-nourished" 275
XVII "Fire Burn, and Cauldron Bubble" 294
XVIII The First Cold War 317
XIX "A Date That Will Live in Infamy" 346
Part V One Gangland or One Neighborhood
XX "Angered Forces of Common Humanity" 367
XXI "Hit Him and Hit Him Again" 380
XXII Through the Mists: One Neighborhood 407
XXIII "To Go Back to My Home on the Hudson" 431
Epilogue 440
Thank You 442
Sources and Acknowledgments 443
Index 447