Introduction --

Part 1. The Federal city (1895-1924) The oldest inhabitants (1800-1895) ; Little Edgar (1895-1905) ; The boy problem (1905-1909) ; Jump high and leap quick (1909-1913) ; Dieu et les dames (1913-1917) ; The great adventure (1917-1918) ; The radical division (1919) ; New elements (1920) ; No. 2 (1924-1924) --

Part 2. Building the Bureau (1924-1945) Preface ; The new sleuth (1924-1925) ; Kappa Alpha Bureau (1925-1928) ; Depression days (1929-1932) ; Chairman of the Moral Uplift Squad (1927-1932) ; Government men (1933) ; The black chamber (1934) ; It's FBI now (1934-1935) ; Right-hand man (1935-1936) ; Sob sisters and convict lovers (1935-1938) ; The gathering storm (1936-1938) ; Mothers and sons (1938-1939) ; Terror by index card (1939-1940) ; Henry E. Jones (1940-1941) ; Enemy aliens (1941-1942) ; The most exciting achievement yet (1942) ; American dilemmas (1942-1945) --

Part 3. Power and politics (1945-1959) Preface ; Central intelligence (1945-1946) ; Under color of law (1941-1948) ; The one bulwark (1941-1946) ; Un-American activities (1946-1947) ; Three-ring circus (1948-1950) ; J. Edgar Hoover, churchman (1948-1950) ; Atomic drama (1949-1951) ; Hooverism (1950-1952) ; Inner conflicts (1947-1952) ; A glorious year (1953) ; No sense of decency (1953-1954) ; Massive resistance (1954-1957) ; Master of deceit (1956-1959) --

Part 4. The war at home (1960-1972) Preface ; New frontiers (1960-1961) ; Top hoodlums (1957-1961) ; The Federal Bureau of Integration (1957-1961) ; Patron saint of the far Right (1961-1962) ; In friendship (1961-1962) ; Decadent thinking (1957-1962) ; The most dangerous Negro (1963) ; The President is dead (1963) ; The Commission (1963-1964) ; Freedom summer (1964) ; All the way with LBJ (1964) ; The most notorious liar (1964-1965) ; White hate (1964-1965) ; Hoover knows best (1965-1966) ; Commies in colleges (1965-1967) ; Messiah (1968) ; Nixon's the one (1968-1969) ; The gospel of nihilism (1969-1970) ; The man who stayed too long (1970-1971) ; One of the giants (1972) --

Epilogue.