A personal prologue
By an American
A love not ashamed of economy
Let us not flatter ourselves
Of mobs and marriages
How does it feel to be a question?
On resistance
The workshop of reform
On quitting and not giving up
First duties first, and how to do your second duties too
Keep firing
On delicate ears and indelicate truths
A warning or an example
No time for ovations
Truly living now
Epilogue.