Contents

Introduction

Part I: What Does a Former President Do?

1. The Man with No Face

2. The Egyptian American at the Wall

3. Work That Follows You Out of Office

4. President Bush 41 and the Children’s Drawings

5. New Orleans and the Boats of Bayou La Batre

6. Haiti and the People Who Keep Going

7. Hurricanes Hit Home, and Bush 41’s Last Rodeo

8. Family Life Goes On

Part II: Fighting Disease and Poverty Around the World and at Home

9. The Clinton Foundation and the Creation of CHAI

10. The Activists, the Champions, and Bush 43’s Fair Deal

11. CGI: Reinventing Philanthropy, One Commitment at a Time

12. The Widow Farmer and the Spice Traders

13. Supporting Health and Opportunity at Home

14. Women and Children First

15. Skyscrapers and Trees to the Rescue

Part III: Politics, Rewriting History, and Reviving the Foundation in a Still Uncertain Future

16. An Old Story in New Clothes

17. The Senators Face Off

18. Our First Black President and the Resurgence of the Hard Right

19. Hillary Steps Down and In

20. Comey and Putin Get into the Act

21. The Hazards of Rewriting History

22. 2017–2020: Back to the Foundation

23. The Virus That Affected Us All, and the Virus We Resisted

Epilogue

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Index

A Note About the Author