| Preface | viii |
| Introduction | ix |
| 1. Nobel Laureate | 1 |
| 2. A Wartime Urgency | 13 |
| 3. Steve Brodie, Methyl Orange, and the New Pharmacology | 31 |
| 4. Brodie and Axelrod: "Let's Take a Flier on It" | 48 |
| 5. Building 3: "All He Had to Do Was Whistle" | 66 |
| 6. Separate Ways | 90 |
| 7. Julie's Lab | l10 |
| 8. The Golden Era | 132 |
| 9. Johns Hopkins | 153 |
| 10. The Opiate Receptor: "Just Get Hysterical and Do It" | 171 |
| 11. The Lasker Flap | 202 |
| 12. The Mentor Chain | 227 |
| 13. Epilogue: 1985 | 241 |
| Acknowledgments | 263 |
| Index | 265 |