A complex fate : William L. Shirer and the American century / Ken Cuthbertson.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-540) and index.

Midwestern beginnings -- Cedar Rapids -- More questions than answers -- Paris -- The world's dizziest newspaper -- Gabardine trenchcoats and late-night trains -- Vienna: a capital without a nation -- "SHIRER FLY INDIA" -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Termination -- From Paris to Berlin -- The nightmare years -- A change of direction -- An unlikely duo -- Return to Vienna -- "We now take you to London..." -- Radio news comes of age -- The gathering clouds of war -- A Pandora's box of horrors -- War on the western front -- Hitler ascendant -- Auf wiedersehen, Berlin -- Berlin diary -- The price of fame -- Change and confusion -- The banality of evil -- Changing times -- Tides of intolerance -- "Pride ruined the angels" -- Signing off at CBS -- "May his voice be heard again" -- Blacklisted -- End of an affair -- A book for the ages -- "The transientness of our existence" -- An ending and a new beginning -- Memoirs -- A twenty-year-old mind in an eighty-year-old body -- Tenacious to the end -- The final act.