Introduction:So Many Interesting People

Part I
The Muckraking Era

1. First Encounter With the Press
2. Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Mellon
3. “The Divine Sarah,” “Red Emma,” and Others

Part II
Four Strange Interludes

4. Harvard: Professor Copeland, Jack Reed
5. Greenwich Village in 1916
6. Wartime London: A Traitor, a Hero
7. Paris: Editor, ChiTrib Army Edition

Part III
The War to End All Wars

8. Great Correspondents
9. Rickenbacker, Guthrie, MacArthur, Pershing, Patton, Woollcott
10. Armistice Day, 1918
11. Hindenburg Confesses: U.S. Won the War
12. Peace Journey With Woodrow Wilson
13. Foch Originates the Cold War

Part IV
Tribune Decade: Berlin to Baghdad

14. Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson
15. Lady Astor, Irish Rebels, D’Annunzio
16. Berlin: The Men Who Lost the War
17. Einstein, Freud, Isadora Duncan
18. The Adlon: A World in Itself
19. The Greatest Inflation in History

Part V
Trotsky, Lenin, Lenin’s America

20. How the United States Saved Russia
21. The Lenin Interview
22. Lenin Speaks of His American Mentors
23. Inside the Dread Chekah

Part VI
Rome, Mussolini, and Fascism

24. Vincent Sheean in Trouble
25. Mussolini: “My Dear Colleague”
26. Cianfarra, Sturzo, Pirandello
27. Dr. Alfred Adler on Mussolini

Part VII
Damascus and Mexico via Chicago

28. Sarrail: A Tragic General
29. The Suppressed Mexico Series
30. Katherine Medill McCormick

Part VIII
France: Artists and Writers

31. The One-Man Lost Generation
32. Adventures in the Latin Quarter
33. The French Riviera
34. Angelica Balabanoff

Part IX
Return to the U.S.A.

35. Paris: Marriage; Honeymoon in Spain
36. Encounters With Theodore Dreiser
37. Sinclair Lewis in Vermont
38. Woodward, Boyd, H.G. Wells Again

Part X
The Spanish War – and After

39. “Spain Broke the Heart of the World”
40. Hemingway: Man and Myth
41. A Hero, a Villain, and an SOB
42. Esquire’s Mr. Smart – Wasn’t
43. Ken’s Engraved Letterheads
44. You May Owe Your Life to Mr. Ickes

Part XI
The In fact Decade

45. Now It Can Be Told
46. How We Defeated Martin Dies
47. Face to Face With Joe McCarthy
48. The Third SOB: Reader’s Choice
49. Friend or Enemy? J. Edgar Hoover
50. Secret Friends: Polk, Hollenbeck, Others
51. Public Friends: Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt

Part XII
Through the Iron Curtain

52. Guglielmo Emmanuel vs. Mussolini
53. A Man Named Sermonetti? Carlos? Vidali?
54. My Last Hero: Marshal Tito
55. Rakosi: Dictator(?) of Hungary
56. Journalists and Cardinal Mindszenty

Part XIII
In Our Time

57. Tito Interviews Us
58. Comrade Pavlov Owes Me $5,000
59. Perico Chicote and Ernesto Emenwhey
60. Women’s Lib: Chicote Style
61. La Pasionaria – The New Spain

Part XIV
And in Conclusion…

62. Citizen Nader
63. I Was There

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