A beautiful frame -- Albany : the young lion -- Washington : the politician as bureaucrat -- Crusade for the league -- Interlude : The politician as businessman -- Apprenticeship in Albany -- Nomination by a hairbreadth -- Curious campaign -- Leader in the White House -- President of all the people? -- Grapes of wrath -- Thunder on the right -- Foreign policy by makeshift -- 1936 : the grand coalition -- Court packing : the miscalculated risk -- Roosevelt recession -- Deadlock on the Potomac -- Fissures in the party -- Diplomacy : pinpricks and protest -- Soundless struggle -- An old campaigner, a new campaign