Preface : toward a Weizmann biography
Eastern European beginnings
On the path to leadership
Conflicting loyalties
The Uganda controversy
New beginnings
Synthetic zionism
Failed professorship
The Great War
Acetone in the service of Zionism
Between exile and redemption
From letter to Balfour Declaration
Laying the cornerstone of the Hebrew University
The road to San Remo
The break with American Zionism
Lobbying for Palestine
Labor pains
If we don't have America
Lewis and Baffy
The third era of Zionism
On the world stage
A lace of his own
The valleys and the hills
War again
Zionism of the weak
A golden autumn
"You may view the land from a distance"
The contours of memory.