Preface to the Paperback Edition                   xi
Author's Note                                      xv
  PART I Lessons in Terror                         1  (34)
    Chapter 1 Smiling Death                        9  (8)
    Chapter 2 Into the Swamp                       17 (18)
  PART II An American, Chicago Born                35 (32)
    Chapter 3 The Last of Spring                   40 (13)
    Chapter 4 The Longest of Long Shots            53 (14)
  PART III The U.S. Congress: From Camelot to      67 (38)
  Quagmire
    Chapter 5 "Here, Sir, the People Govern"       74 (17)
    Chapter 6 Young Turks                          91 (14)
  PART IV In Nixon's Arena                         105(56)
    Chapter 7 1968: Year of Turmoil                110(9)
    Chapter 8 The Job That Couldn't Be Done        119(11)
    Chapter 9 Counsellor                           130(17)
    Chapter 10 NATO and Nixon's Fall               147(14)
  PART V Javelin Catcher: Inside the Ford White    161(42)
  House
    Chapter 11 Restoring Trust                     165(11)
    Chapter 12 A Rocky Start                       176(16)
    Chapter 13 An Agonizing Reappraisal            192(11)
  PART VI Fighting the Cold War                    203(38)
    Chapter 14 Unfinished Business                 207(6)
    Chapter 15 Turning On the Lights               213(9)
    Chapter 16 Hold the SALT: Tension over         222(11)
    Detente
    Chapter 17 The 1976 Defeat                     233(8)
  PART VII Back to Reality                         241(36)
    Chapter 18 Searle's Sweet Success              245(13)
    Chapter 19 From Malaise to Morning in          258(9)
    America
    Chapter 20 Our Rural Period, Interrupted       267(10)
  PART VIII Leaning Forward                        277(86)
    Chapter 21 Here We Go Again                    284(6)
    Chapter 22 Dogs Don't Bark at Parked Cars      290(15)
    Chapter 23 Bears in the Woods                  305(11)
    Chapter 24 The National Security Council       316(15)
    Chapter 25 The Agony of Surprise               331(18)
    Chapter 26 War President                       349(14)
  PART IX Into the Graveyard of Empires            363(48)
    Chapter 27 Special Operations                  367(12)
    Chapter 28 Little Birds in a Nest              379(16)
    Chapter 29 Kabul Falls, Karzai Rises           395(16)
  PART X Saddam's Miscalculation                   411(60)
    Chapter 30 Out of the Box                      416(9)
    Chapter 31 The Case for Regime Change          425(18)
    Chapter 32 A Failure of Diplomacy              443(16)
    Chapter 33 Exit the Butcher of Baghdad         459(12)
  PART XI The Occupation of Iraq                   471(72)
    Chapter 34 Catastrophic Success                479(14)
    Chapter 35 Mission Accomplished?               493(15)
    Chapter 36 Too Many Hands on the Steering      508(16)
    Wheel
    Chapter 37 Liberation from the Occupation      524(19)
  PART XII Wartime Detention                       543(68)
    Chapter 38 The Least Worst Place               554(20)
    Chapter 39 The Twentieth Hijacker              574(13)
    Chapter 40 Law in a Time of War                587(14)
    Chapter 41 The Road Not Traveled               601(10)
  PART XIII Pulling On Our Boots: Challenges       611(46)
  and Controversies Beyond the War Zones
    Chapter 42 Katrina and the Challenge of New    616(11)
    Institutions
    Chapter 43 Gardening                           627(18)
    Chapter 44 The Army We Had                     645(12)
  PART XIV The Long, Hard Slog                     657(70)
    Chapter 45 Hands Off the Bicycle Seat          661(10)
    Chapter 46 The Dead Enders                     671(10)
    Chapter 47 Eyes on Afghanistan                 681(11)
    Chapter 48 Iraq's Summer of Violence           692(12)
    Chapter 49 Farewells                           704(7)
    Chapter 50 After Tides and Hurricanes          711(16)
Acknowledgments                                    727(4)
List of Acronyms                                   731(2)
List of Illustrations                              733(5)
Notes                                              738(53)
Index                                              791