Description Preface: Republishing an Old Book 1. The Dreyfus Affair: The Opening of the 20th Century The Traitor Dreyfus | The Truth Uncovered by Lieutenant Colonel Picquart | Émile Zola's Accusation | Legal Resolution | Political Settlement | The Age of the Intellectual 2. The Sarajevo Incident: A Single Spark That Set the Wilderness Ablaze The Gunshots of Sarajevo | Europe's Civil War | The First World War | An Imperialism That Could Have Swallowed the Moon 3. The Russian Revolution: The Reckless Rush of a Beautiful Ideal At the Finland Station | Bloody Sunday and the Potemkin Mutiny | From Benevolent Autocracy to Political Corruption and Revolution | Lenin, the Fighter | The Bolshevik Revolution | The Fall of Icarus 4. The Great Depression: The Bankruptcy of Laissez-Faire Capitalism New York's 'Terrible Thursday' | Surplus Oranges, Starving Children | Roosevelt and Hitler | The Keynesian Revolution | The Legacy of the Great Depression 5. The Long March: The Founding Myth of the People's Republic of China The Eighth Unification Hero | Fated Rivals | The Red Army's Escape | Crossing the Yangtze River | Protracted War | The Xi'an Incident | A Continent Turned Red | New Democracy 6. Hitler: A Chain of All Evils The Weimar Republic | Mein Kampf | World War II | The Holocaust | The Banality of Evil 7. Palestine: A Land of Tragedy Whose Tears Never Dry Stage of Tragedy | Protagonists of the Drama | The Jewish Military's 'Ethnic Cleansing' | The Middle East Wars and the PLO | Arafat in New York | The Endless Cycle of Terror and War 8. Vietnam: The Last War of National Liberation A Nation That Would Not Yield | The Man Named Ho Chi Minh | The First Indochina War | French Betrayal, American Intervention | The Second Vietnam War | The Pentagon Papers | After the War 9. Malcolm X: The Black Prometheus Muhammad Ali | The Era of Jim Crow Laws | Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. | Integration and Separation | Assassination | Racial Inequality in America 10. Nuclear Weapons: Energy's Revenge The Women's Peace Camp | War and Science | The Atomic Bomb | Ballistic Missiles | The Cuban Missile Crisis | A World Without Nuclear Weapons 11. German Reunification and the Collapse of the Soviet Union: The Closing of the 20th Century The Berlin Wall | The Disappearance of the Socialist World | Mikhail Gorbachev | The Dark History of the Soviet Union | The Tragic Failure of a Great Experiment | Freikauf Epilogue: An Unknowable Future The Time of History | Tribal Instinct | Alan Turing | The Fourth Industrial Revolution | 100 Years From Now Bibliography Index