The Warner brothers

Prologue : put up or shut up

Manifest destiny : origins to 1923

Incorporation, innovation, triumph, and tragedy : 1923-1929

Battling the depression, censors, and stars : 1930-1936

Fighting fascism, America firsters, and the US senate : 1937-1941

The war years : 1942-1945

Postwar politics, HUAC, and the blacklist : 1946-1947

Last gasp of old Hollywood : 1948-1955

End of the studio, end of the family : 1956-1959

A new Hollywood rises : 1960-1978

Coda : as time goes by

Afterword / by Michael Uslan.