Unlikely heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, his four lieutenants, and the world they made

Stepping forward : From inauguration as Governor, January 1, 1929, to the October crash

Economic plague : October 1929 to campaign Summer 1932

Surge to power : November elections 1932 to Roosevelt's inauguration, March 1933

Action now : The hundred days, March-June 1933

New frontiers : Summer 1933 to the midterm elections, November 1934

Getting the habit : Midterm elections 1934 to summer 1936 party conventions

Crest of the wave : FDR's campaign of 1936 to Christmas 1937

Facing the world : A super island-state in the mid-1930s

Faith and maintenance : January to summer 1938

Turning points : Reforms of summer 1938 to a new Congress, January 1939

Spark to flame : "Munich" in autumn 1938 to war in Europe, September 1939

Line of fire : War in September 1939 to attack in western Europe, May 1940

Devotees of force : Blitzkrieg of May 1940 to FDR's inauguration, January 1941

Eleventh hour : Inauguration 1941 to Peal Harbor, December 7

New extremes : Attack at Pearl Harbor to November 1942 midterm elections

Washington wars : Operation torch, November 1942, to the coal strikes, November 1943

Hard pounding : Stalin Tehran, November 1943 to D-Day, June 1944

Long shadows : Operation overlord, summer 1944, to FDR's death, April 1945.