Part I. Becoming FDR -- "The best people": family and identity, 1882-1896 -- Young gentleman: schooldays, 1896-1904 -- Eleanor and Franklin: marriage, family, job, 1904-1910 -- Insurgent progressive, 1910-1913 -- Riding in front: Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913-1914 -- Armageddon: the Great War, 1914-1919 -- Victory in defeat, 1919-1921 -- Paralysis and philanthropy, 1921-1928 -- The young prince returns, 1922-1928 -- Chief executive: power in Albany, 1929-1932 -- Destiny calls: the quest for the presidency, January-July, 1932 -- Much to fear: election and interregnum, July, 1932-March, 1933 -- Part II. The New Deal -- Nothing to fear: creating a New Deal, March-July, 1933 -- Unlimited ambitions, limited achievement: the First New deal, July, 1933-November, 1934 -- Presidential government, the politics of maximum leadership, 1933-1934 -- Toward "a new order of things": origins of the Second New Deal, 1935 -- Rendezvous with destiny: the Second New Deal and the triumph of 1936 -- "Panic and lack of confidence": the economic and political consequences of the second hundred days, 1937-1939 -- Part III. The world at war -- Winds of war, 1933-1939 -- Private plans and public danger, September, 1939-November, 1940 -- Undeclared war, December 7, 1940-December 7, 1941 -- Commander-in-chief of the United Nations, December, 1941-January, 1943 -- Dr. New Deal at bay: mobilization and mortality, 1942-1944 -- War and diplomacy, February, 1943-June 1944 -- Indispensable man, June 6, 1944-November 7, 1944 -- The quest for a new world order, November 8, 1944-April 15, 1945 -- Epilogue: FDR and the American century