CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

DEDICATION


CHAPTER 1:  The Plame Affair

CHAPTER 2:  Political Beginnings

CHAPTER 3:  Cub Reporter

CHAPTER 4:  From Omaha to ’Naptown

CHAPTER 5:  Advice from Ezra Pound

CHAPTER 6:  Joining the Journal

CHAPTER 7:  Emperor of the Senate

CHAPTER 8:  Driving with Kennedy

CHAPTER 9:  New Frontier

CHAPTER 10:  LBJ Hosts a Wedding Reception

CHAPTER 11:  The Odd Couple

CHAPTER 12:  The Goldwater Revolution

CHAPTER 13:  The Agony of the GOP

CHAPTER 14:  The Great Society: In Ascent

CHAPTER 15:  The Great Society: In Descent

CHAPTER 16:  Clean Gene, Bobby, and LBJ

CHAPTER 17:  Realignment 1968

CHAPTER 18:  Den of Vipers

CHAPTER 19:  Vietnam

CHAPTER 20:  The Frustration of Power

CHAPTER 21:  “Amnesty, Abortion and Acid”

CHAPTER 22:  Watergate

CHAPTER 23:  The Ford Interlude

CHAPTER 24:  Reagan’s Rebellion

CHAPTER 25:   Jimmy Who?

CHAPTER 26:  The Snopes Clan in the White House

CHAPTER 27:  Supply-Side and China

CHAPTER 28:  A Young Congressman from New York


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CHAPTER 29:  The Birth of CNN

CHAPTER 30:  The Reagan Revolution

CHAPTER 31:  A Near-Death Experience

CHAPTER 32:  The Slowest Realignment in American History

CHAPTER 33:  “I’ll Try Ollie North”

CHAPTER 34:  The Last Days of Reagan

CHAPTER 35:   Blowup

CHAPTER 36:  Believing Their Own Spin

CHAPTER 37:  Yeltsin Up, Bush Down

CHAPTER 38:  Clinton = Republican Tsunami

CHAPTER 39:  “Will Success Spoil Newt Gingrich?”

CHAPTER 40:   Conversion

CHAPTER 41:  The Rise of George W. Bush

CHAPTER 42:  Death of a Partner

CHAPTER 43:  Attacking Iraq and Attacking Novak

CHAPTER 44:  The Plame Affair II

CHAPTER 45:  Farewell to CNN

CHAPTER 46:  A Stirrer-up of Strife


AUTHOR’S NOTE

ALSO BY ROBERT D. NOVAK

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