Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Chapter 1 Americans at Large 1
Chapter 2 Country House Life 10
Chapter 3 Eton and Elsewhere 22
Chapter 4 Oxford Blues 34
Chapter 5 Adam von Trott 45
Chapter 6 In Limbo 55
Chapter 7 The Cliveden Set 65
Chapter 8 Gravitas 74
Chapter 9 Frustration 87
Chapter 10 Regime Change 99
Chapter 11 Filling the Void 109
Chapter 12 Man at Arms 126
Chapter 13 Foreign Editor 139
Chapter 14 Coming into his Inheritance 152
Chapter 15 The Golden Age 166
Chapter 16 African Affairs 186
Chapter 17 Suez 201
Chapter 18 Changing the Guard 213
Chapter 19 New Faces 226
Chapter 20 Competing on Two Fronts 236
Chapter 21 The Perils of Biography 255
Chapter 22 Drifting Apart 269
Chapter 23 End Game 286
Chapter 24 Last Rites 295
Chapter 25 Home Affairs 306
Chapter 26 Happy Endings 324
Acknowledgements 339
Picture Credits 342
Bibliography 343
Notes 353
Index 403
