CONTENTS

Prologue

1 Roots

2 Growing Up

3 College

4 The Secretary

5 Lady Bird and the NYA

6 Congress

7 Pappy

8 War

9 Truman and the Coming of the Cold War

10 Coke

11 A Populist Gentlemen’s Club

12 Leader

13 Passing the Lord’s Prayer

14 Back from the Edge

15 Containing the Red-Hots: From Dulles to the Dixie Association

16 Lost in Space

17 1960

18 Camelot Meets Mr. Cornpone

19 Hanging On

20 Interregnum: Death and Resurrection

21 “Kennedy Was Too Conservative for Me”

22 Free at Last

23 Containment at Home and Abroad

24 “The Countryside of the World”

25 Bobby

26 Barry

27 A New Bill of Rights

28 The Crux of the Matter

29 Daunted Courage

30 Castro’s and Kennedy’s Shadows

31 A City on the Hill

32 Balancing Act

33 Divisions

34 Civil War

35 Battling Dr. Strangelove

36 The Holy Land

37 Backlash

38 Of Hawks and Doves, Vultures and Chickens

39 Tet

40 A Midsummer Nightmare

41 Touching the Void

Notes

Acknowledgments

Photographic Insert