Chapter 1: "I have selected Columbia"
Chapter 2: Schools for Journalists?
Chapter 3: "Dealing with a wild man"
Chapter 4: "A posthumous affair"
Chapter 5: "We will start right away"
Chapter 6: A building called "journalism"
Chapter 7: "What journalism will do to Columbia"
Chapter 8: "If seditiion is to be excluded"
Chapter 9: Red apple and maraschino cherry
Chapter 10: The first dean
Chapter 11: "Ackerman hails stand of press"
Chapter 12: The graduate school
Chapter 13: Speaking to cabots
Chapter 14: "My dear dean"
Chapter 15: Outpost in chungking
Chapter 16: "Sweat and tears"
Chapter 17: Postwar ventures
Chapter 18: The dean and the prizes
Chapter 19: "Training ground"
Chapter 20: "The Pulitzer mandate"
Chapter 21: From dropout to dean
Chapter 22: Short-changed
Chapter 23: "Why a review?"
Chapter 24: Era of expansion
Chapter 25: Edging toward the abyss
Chapter 27: Desperately seeking a dean
Chapter 28: "Welcome to the joint"
Chapter 29: Hohenberg and the prizes
Chapter 30: Meeting fatigue
Chapter 31: "It appears you have a new dean"
Chapter 32: CJR-from new management to old
Chapter 33: "Sour apples"
Chapter 36: The conglomerate
Chapter 38: Trying to stretch the year
Chapter 39: "Clearly insufficient"
Chapter 40: Has the Pulitzer idea survived?
