Contents

Introduction

1 “Had Enough?”

2 An Extraordinary Congress

3 We Like Ike

4 Profiles in Courage

5 “Let’s Grow Up, Conservatives!”

6 The Reluctant Champion

7 Landslide

8 The Citizen Politician

9 The Real Nixon

10 New Right and Old Left

11 Winning Conservative

12 Golden Years

13 The Reagan Doctrine

14 Contracts Made and Broken

15 Newt! Newt! Newt!

16 Can Conservatives Govern?

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index