Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 3
4. Midwestern Beginnings 7
5. Cedar Rapids 18
6. More Questions than Answers 27
7. Paris 35
8. The World’s Dizziest Newspaper 45
9. Gabardine Trenchcoats and Late-Night Trains 51
10. Vienna: A Capital without a Nation 62
11. “Shirer Fly India” 75
12. Mahatma Gandhi 89
13. Termination 103
14. From Paris to Berlin 115
15. The Nightmare Years 123
16. A Change of Direction 135
17. An Unlikely Duo 143
18. Return to Vienna 158
19. “We Now Take you to London...” 171
20. Radio News Comes of Age 183
21. The Gathering Clouds of War 194
22. A Pandora’s Box of Horrors 207
23. War on the Western Front 216
24. Hitler Ascendant 245
25. Auf wiedersehen, Berlin 257
26. Berlin Diary 273
27. The Price of Fame 285
28. Change and Confusion 294
29. The Banality of Evil 306
30. Changing Times 315
31. Tides of Intolerance 323
32. “Pride Ruined the angels” 337
33. Signing Off at CBS 347
34. “May his Voice be Heard Again” 355
35. Blacklisted 369
36. End of an Affair 380
37. A Book for the Ages 394
38. “The Transientness of Our Existence” 415
39. An Ending and a New Beginning 428
40. Memoirs 444
41. A Twenty-Year-Old Mind in an Eighty-Year-Old Body 457
42. Tenacious to the End 472
43. The Final Act 478
44. Acknowledgments 487
45. Notes 491
46. Bibliography 535
47. Index 541