Roosevelt's lost alliances: how personal politics helped start the Cold War

A portrait of the allies as young men : Franklin, Winston, and Koba

From Missy to Molotov : the women and men who sustained the Big Three

The personal touch : forming the alliance, January-August 1941

Transcending differences : Eden goes to Moscow and Churchill to Washington, December 1941

Creating the "family circle" : the torturous path to Tehran, 1942-43

"I've worked it out": Roosevelt's plan to win the peace and defy death, 1944-45

The diplomacy of trauma : Kennan and his colleagues in Moscow, 1933-46

Guns and kisses in the Kremlin : ambassadors Harriman and Clark Kerr encounter Stalin, 1943-46

"Roosevelt's death has changed everything" : Truman's first days, April-June 1945

The lost alliance : widespread anxiety and deepening ideology, July 1945-March 1946

Conclusion and epilogue.