Prologue: Born on a Powder Keg
Part I. Europe: Persecutions, Wars, Ruptures, Displacements 1907-1946 and a Prehistory
1. Around the Hall of Merchants
3. Ernesto Krausz Makes His Entrance
4. Miraculous Years in Trieste
5. In the Hietzing Bubble, Vienna, World War I
6. A Fake Moustache for the Emperor
7. The Irrepressible Rise of Ernesto Krausz
8. Turning Twenty Under Fascism
9. Bucharest: First Brush with the Avant-Garde
10. From Neuilly to Place Vendôme
11. Dramatic and Perilous, an Exodus to the United States
12. Bucharest Redux: First Frost of the Cold War
Part II. The Years of the Metamorphosis 1946-1956
13. Playing Hooky at MoMA
14. Passeur to the New World
15. "A Touch I Am Glad Not to Have"
16. The Right Man for the Job, or Just a Tango Dancer?
17. From Pollock to de Kooning: Towards the Gallery Opening
Part III. Absolute Leader of American Art 1957-1998
19. Trial Shot and Masterstroke: The Jasper Epiphany
20. A Whirlwind of Invention: "Discover a Genius a Week!"
22. The "Beatles Biennale"
23. The Free-Spirited Teenager and the Devilish Imp
24. The Conquest of Europe
25. The "Svengali of Pop"
27. Castelli's Network as the House of Savoy
28. A Promised Land South of Houston Street
30. Tributes, Honors, a Name Carved in History
Permissions Acknowledgments