Van Loon: Popular Historian, Journalist, and FDR Confidant

Preface; A.M.Schlesinger Jr. Acknowledgments Prologue PART I: THE FORMATIVE YEARS A Troubled Youth in Holland (1882-1902) Cornell-Harvard-Cornell (1902-1905) Associated Press Journalist in Russia and Poland (1905-1907) Historical Training in Munich (1907-1911) PART II: IN SEARCH OF A PLACE Washington Years of Trial and Error (1912-1914) The Great War (1914-1918) Life in The Village (1918-1920) PART III: THE JAZZ AGE The Breakthrough (1921-1922) The Prince of Popularizers (1922-1928) The Veere Paradise (1928-1931) PART IV: THE THIRTIES The Educator (1931-1935) For Roosevelt and The Arts (1936-1937) The Prophet of the Coming Wrath (1938-1940) PART V: THE GREAT FIGHT: WORLD WAR II For the Cause of Freedom (1940-1941) The Reincarnation of Erasmus (1942) Living on Borrowed Time (1943-1944) Epilogue Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index