Foreword
Polio
Dean and Mac
A changed man
Jim Crow South
Becoming Yankeefied
The exercise of power
"Antsy as Hell"
The "lost decade"
"Role playing"
"Win or die trying"
Land of giants
Research and destroy
Mastery of process
"First-class ass-kicking"
"No substitute for winning"
Dream deferred, achieved
The power of no
"Anybody . . . know how to make a deal?"
"Scalia's seat"
Power base
"Not very smart, irascible . . . despicable . . . beyond erratic"
"The McConnell Court"
January 6
The fall
Power
Epilogue: "The last thing you do"
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index.