Prologue: a plane crash in the South Pacific
Growing up Black in Cajun Country
Sunday mornings in Louisiana
On the banks of the Mississippi
A spiritual journey at Yale
Alabama: the search for an ethic of protest
California: the other war on campus
Cummins Engine Company: capitalism with an ethic
Debating disinvestment: a visit to South Africa
The Carter administration: private wants and public needs
Civil society: the public use of private power
From activist to diplomat: race and reconciliation in South Africa
Dismantling apartheid: the unfinished agenda
Ethics and statecraft: what I learned from Nelson Mandela
Presidential diplomacy: the Clinton visit to South Africa
Leaders learning from leaders
A lexicon of public values: what the virtuecrats did not tell us
Epilogue: building community by design.