FDR and the creation of the U.N

The ghost of Woodrow Wilson

A grim road to war

Argentia and the Atlantic Charter

Postwar planning begins

The widening public debate

Progress in 1943

Will the Russians participate?

Quebec and Moscow

Cairo and Teheran

High hopes but inherent limits

Domestic politics in 1944

The Dumbarton Oaks Conference I

The Dumbarton Oaks Conference II

The 1944 election

An unsettling winter

Contention and compromise at San Francisco

Appendix: Charter of the United Nations.