CONTENTS // Preface ix // Prologue 1 // Chapter 1 / growing up 19 // Chapter 2 / education and the dream of success 46 // Chapter 3 / the making of a politician 72 // Chapter 4 / rise to power in the senate 102 // Chapter 5 / the senate leader 135 // Chapter 6 / the vice-presidency 160 // Chapter 7 / the transition year 170 // Chapter 8 / the great society 210 // Chapter 9 / Vietnam 251 // Chapter 10 / things go wrong 286 // Chapter 11 / under siege in the white house 309 // Chapter 12 / the withdrawal 335 // Epilogue 353 // Acknowledgments 367 // Author’s Postscript 369 // Notes 401 // Index // 421