Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword, by Morley Safer -- Introduction -- 1 Midwestern Beginnings -- 2 Cedar Rapids -- 3 More Questions than Answers -- 4 Paris -- 5 The World's Dizziest Newspaper -- 6 Gabardine Trenchcoats and Late-Night Trains -- 7 Vienna: A Capital without a Nation -- 8 "SHIRER FLY INDIA" -- 9 Mahatma Gandhi -- 10 Termination -- 11 From Paris to Berlin -- 12 The Nightmare Years -- 13 A Change of Direction -- 14 An Unlikely Duo -- 15 Return to Vienna -- 16 "We now take you to London..." -- 17 Radio News Comes of Age -- 18 The Gathering Clouds of War -- 19 A Pandora's Box of Horrors -- 20 War on the Western Front -- 21 Hitler Ascendant -- 22 Auf wiedersehen, Berlin -- 23 Berlin Diary -- 24 The Price of Fame -- 25 Change and Confusion -- 26 The Banality of Evil -- 27 Changing Times -- 28 Tides of Intolerance -- 29 "Pride ruined the angels" -- 30 Signing Off at CBS -- 31 "May his voice be heard again" -- 32 Blacklisted -- 33 End of an Affair -- 34 A Book for the Ages -- 35 "The transientness of our existence" -- 36 An Ending and a New Beginning -- 37 Memoirs -- 38 A Twenty-Year-Old Mind in an Eighty-Year-Old Body -- 39 Tenacious to the End -- 40 The Final Act -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.