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| Introduction: "The Bay of Pigs Thing" | |
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| Prologue: "Balls Were in the Air" Saturday, April 15, 1961 | |
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| Honeymoon April 15-October 26, 1959 | |
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| "Viva Castro!" April 1959 | |
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| "Point of No Return" Summer-Autumn 1959 | |
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| A Program of Covert Action November 3, 1959-January 19, 1961 | |
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| "It's a Secret" November 1959-March 1960 | |
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| "Program of Covert Action" December 1959-March 1960 | |
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| "A Question of Propriety" 1954, 1960 | |
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| "The End Justified the Means" May-August 1960 | |
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| "Shock Action" Autumn 1960 | |
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| "No Easy Matters" November 9, 1960-January 19, 1961 | |
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| Golden Interlude January 20-April 14, 1961 | |
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| "A Grenade" Winter 1961 | |
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| "A Stone Falling in Water" February 8-March 15, 1961 | |
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| "Too Spectacular" March 1961 | |
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| "Albatross" Late March-Early April 1961 | |
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| "Infinite Trouble" April 5-April 11, 1961 | |
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| "A Fanatical Urge to Begin" April 12-April 14, 1961 | |
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| D-Day April 15-April 19, 1961 | |
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| "This Is the Aggression" Saturday, April 15: D-2 | |
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| "The Air Will Be Yours" Sunday, April 16: D-1 | |
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| "There Goes the War" Monday, April 17: D-Day | |
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| "Sour Like You Wouldn't Believe" Tuesday, April 18: D+1 | |
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| "The Loneliest Man" Wednesday, April 19: D+2 | |
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| Aftermath April 20-December 31, 1962 | |
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| "The Way Things Are Going" April 20, 1961 | |
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| "Defeat Is an Orphan" April 21, 1961 | |
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| "No One Knows How Tough" Spring 1961 | |
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| "Success Is What Succeeds" Late Spring 1961 | |
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| "It Will Be a Cold Winter" Summer 1961-Winter 1962 | |
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| "A Man Who Knows" Spring-Autumn 1962 | |
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| "Abyss of Destruction" October 14-November 24, 1962 | |
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| "There Are No Obstacles" Christmas 1962 | |
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| Epilogue: "It Could Have Been Worse" | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |