Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Welcome
4. Dedication
5. Foreword by Kirsten Gillibrand
6. Introduction
7. 1. The First Lessons of Tough
8. 2. Love, California, and the War That Changed Everything
9. 3. At Home in the House
10. 4. An Unsettling Time: AIDS, Sexual Harassment, and the Senate
11. 5. From an Asterisk in the Polls to Senator
12. 6. Crashing the Old Boys’ Club
13. 7. The Insanity of Impeachment, a Stolen Election, the Horrors of 9/11 and Iraq
14. 8. Unforgettable Colleagues, a Lonely Dissent, and the Best Election Ever
15. 9. The Crash, Leaders, Sexual Harassment 2.0, and the Sudden Partisanship of the Environment
16. 10. The End and a Beginning
17. Photos
18. Acknowledgments
19. Appendix
20. Top Fifty Legislative Accomplishments
21. A Brief History of My U.S. Senate Seat
22. Lyrics and Poems
23. Newsletters
24. Bibliography
25. Copyright