CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: The President’s “Personal Band of Warriors”

CHAPTER ONE: The “Bright Young Men” on the NSC

CHAPTER TWO: The “Center of the Foreign Policy Universe in America”

CHAPTER THREE: “Reckless Cowboys, off on Their Own on a Wild Ride”

CHAPTER FOUR: “What No Other Part of the Government Did”

CHAPTER FIVE: A “Policy Person First and Foremost”

CHAPTER SIX: A “Wartime” Staff

CHAPTER SEVEN: “When You Work for the President, You Work for the President”

EPILOGUE: What the NSC’s Warriors Have Won

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