Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-490) and index.

Cast of characters -- Major German political parties -- "A gentleman cast himself down fifteen stories" -- "I won't be ready until 1932" -- "Everything should be blown up" -- "Miracle man, Washington, D. C." -- "They will remain hanging until they stink" -- "He has never consulted me about a damn thing" -- "Are you frightened of me" -- "I will take off my coat and vest" -- "A poison-painted monkey on a stick" -- "The half-witted yokels of the cow and cotton states" -- "Dear old man . . . you must step aside" -- "The nomination of this man Hoover is invalid" -- "There was little opportunity for air-sickness" -- "Dammit, Louis, I'm the nominee!" -- "Anti-semitism may be a good starter . . ." -- "Soup is cheaper than tear bombs" -- "He doesn't need a head, his job is to be a hat" -- "The sinister faculty of making men like bad government" -- "The swine within themselves" -- "Climb on the mule" -- "Herr Hitler, I will shoot" -- "We always call her 'Granny'" -- "I saw Hitler cigarettes" -- "Vote for Roosevelt and make it unanimous" -- "A primitive and stupid woman" -- "You felt that they would do anything" -- "Somebody hurled a spittoon."

Depicts the events of 1932, marking the ascent of two political powers that would shape the rest of the twentieth century to come.