Book Table of Contents

Foreword by Charlie Cook
Introduction by Griffin Bell

Chapter 1: A Conscience Shaped
Chapter 2: A National Party No More
Chapter 3: Born a Democrat—Married a Democrat
Chapter 4: Elected a Democrat
Chapter 5: Governed as a Democrat
Chapter 6: But NOT This Kind of Democrat
Chapter 7: “Compromise”: DC’s Dirty Word
Chapter 8: 41 Beats 59—That Strange Senate Math
Chapter 9: “If Fingerprints Showed Up on Skin”
Chapter 10: “Return to Sender”
Chapter 11: Abortion and a God Above
Chapter 12: “By The Sweat of One’s Brow”
Chapter 13: Growing Up with Guns
Chapter 14: The Environment, “Pristine” and Common Sense
Chapter 15: The Arts, the Opry, and a Baby’s Brains
Chapter 16: “Give to Bigotry No Sanction”
Chapter 17: “To Secure These Rights”
Chapter 18: A Culture of Greater Expectations
Chapter 19: The Higher Calling of Higher Education
Chapter 20: The Values Gap
Chapter 21: Onward, Freedom’s Soldiers
Chapter 22: How Carter Ran and Won—Once
Chapter 23: How Clinton Ran and Won—Twice
Chapter 24: Of Whine and Rose-Colored Glasses