CONTENTS

    PROLOGUE “CALL OFF YOUR DOGS”

PART I: A HELL OF A MESS

    CHAPTER 1 “MORE GOLDA THAN MAGGIE”

    CHAPTER 2 #GRANDMOTHERSKNOWBEST

    CHAPTER 3 THE KING OF LITTLE ROCK

    CHAPTER 4 INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY

PART II: THE GREAT PRETENDER

    CHAPTER 5 THE MISANTHROPE

    CHAPTER 6 “I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A YANKEES FAN”

    CHAPTER 7 A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE

PART III: A PANTSUIT-WEARING GLOBETROTTER

    CHAPTER 8 THE PRAETORIAN GUARD

    CHAPTER 9 SHAFTED

    CHAPTER 10 DOUBLE DIPPING

    CHAPTER 11 “I LOVE YOU, BILLY”

    CHAPTER 12 TOP TEN

PART IV: THE FLOODGATES OPEN

    CHAPTER 13 “GET CAUGHT TRYING”

    CHAPTER 14 IMAGINING “HILLARY 5.0”

    CHAPTER 15 WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA

    CHAPTER 16 “SKIN IN THE GAME”

    CHAPTER 17 A “CLASSIC WASHINGTON OMELETTE”

    CHAPTER 18 THE SMOLDERING GUN?

PART V: PICKING UP THE PIECES

    CHAPTER 19 THE POLITICAL ANIMAL

    CHAPTER 20 “WHEN YOU GOT IT, FLAUNT IT”

    CHAPTER 21 DINNER WITH LIZ

PART VI: THE VENDETTA

    CHAPTER 22 WHISPERING CAMPAIGN

    CHAPTER 23 ON THE QT

    CHAPTER 24 SOMEBODY “O’MALLEABLE”

    CHAPTER 25 A SUB ROSA INVESTIGATION

    CHAPTER 26 MISSING IN ACTION

    CHAPTER 27 A TABLOID STAPLE

PART VII: SHAMELESS

    CHAPTER 28 THE POTEMKIN CAMPAIGN

    CHAPTER 29 ON THE “PRECARIOUS LEFT EDGE”

    CHAPTER 30 “A HYDRA-HEADED BEAST”

    CHAPTER 31 “IT’S GONE WAY TOO FAR”

    EPILOGUE THAT OLD CAR SMELL

    AUTHOR’S NOTE

    NOTES

    SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX