| Foreword | 7 |
| Cuvant inainte | 8 |
| I. | Romanian Historical Personalities | |
| Ceausul David Corbea | 11 |
| Ienachita Vacarescu--diplomat: 200 de ani de la incetarea din viata | 18 |
| Dimitrie Cantemir as Strategist | 27 |
| Kogalniceanu: in cautarea modelului social-politic | 36 |
| Mihail Kogalniceanu, artizanul dinainte de ascensiunea post-pasoptista | 44 |
| M. Kogalniceanu's Six Months in Spain: Their Consequences for his Life and Romania's Future | 54 |
| Dimitrie Moldovan (1811-1890) pasoptist ardelean, consilier aulic, binefacator cultural | 72 |
| Carol I (1866-1914) in Modern Romanian History and Historiography | 80 |
| Partenie Cosma--un posibil model de "biografie liant" intre generatii | 92 |
| II. | Romania During and Between the Two World Wars | |
| Ferdinand I: Primul Rege al Romaniei Mari (1914-1927) | 99 |
| Introducere la o viitoare biografie a primului maresal al Romaniei--Constantin Presan | 126 |
| Masoni romani intre precepte si politica (1918-1938) | 138 |
| Antonescu and the Jews | 155 |
| Useful Service Rendered. The Romanian Life of Dimitri Demetrius Dimancescu | 165 |
| Grigore Gafencu--diplomatul realist | 203 |
| Un protagonist al evenimentelor de la 23 august 1944--generalul Gheorghe Mihail | 224 |
| III. | Romanian Resistance to Communism | |
| N. Carandino, cronicar al aparitiei comunismului in Romania | 235 |
| Absurd Victories: Cultural Survival under Communism: A. Sojbenitsyn and C. Noica | 241 |
| File din activitatea lui Emil Hatieganu | 251 |
| O pagina din viata lui Ion Mihalache: arestarea si ancheta din 1947 | 260 |
| IV. | Romanian Cultural Personalities | |
| Efigia lui Eminescu in portretistica unor contemporani | 276 |
| Nicolae Iorga prin tara lui Litovoi | 299 |
| Biography and Poetry: Amending Some Perspectives on Arghezi's Life and Writing | 311 |
| Parallel Universes: Marin Sorescu and the Biographer's Memory | 321 |
| V. | Contacts with Other Cultures | |
| Fascinatia biografiei lui Benjamin Franklin: cazul romanilor | 332 |
| Cioran's "French" Biography: The Man, and the Man of Letters | 342 |
| Marcu Beza la Londra (Incursiuni biografice) | 357 |
| Un artist american si modelul sau romanesc (Memorialistica unui portret) | 365 |
| Alf Lombard--a Swedish Linguist, with Romanian in his Heart | 374 |
