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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: The Rubicon Factor
Part One: The Decision in Crisis
Cleopatra and the Romans (48–30 B.C.) The Decision to Rescue Egypt
Queen Boudicca and the Invaders (CA. A.D. 60) The Decision to Resist
Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada (1588) The Decision to Save the Nation
Beethoven and Deafness (1802) The Decision to Overcome
Tecumseh and an Indian Nation (1806) The Decision to Unite in Struggle
Truman and the A-Bomb (1945) The Decision to End a War
John F. Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) The Decision that Imperiled and Saved the World
Part Two: The Decision to Venture
Columbus and the New World (1492) The Decision to Journey to the Edge and Beyond
Galileo and the Universe (1633) The Decision to Rethink Reality
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the American Wilderness (1803) The Decision to Explore
Charlie Goodnight and the First Cattle Drive (1866) The Decision that Created the Cowboy
Edison and Electric Light (1878–79) The Decision to Subdivide the Sun
Theodore Roosevelt and the Panama Canal (1901–3) The Decision that Revised Global Geopolitics
The Wright Brothers and the Airplane (1903) The Decision to Fly
Sigmund Freud and Sex (1905) The Decision to Defy the Morals of an Age
Frank X. McNamara and Diners Club (1950) The Decision to Remake the Business of Buying and Selling
John F. Kennedy and the Moon (1961) The Decision to Leave the Earth
Ted Turner and CNN (1979) The Decision to Network the Planet
Bill Gates and MS-DOS (1981) The Decision to Own an Indispensable Technology
Part Three: The Decision of Conscience
Joan of Arc and the Dauphin (1429) The Decision to Act on Inspiration
Lincoln and Emancipation (1862) The Decision for Freedom
Clara Barton and the Soldiers (1861–62) The Decision to Care
Gandhi and Nonviolent Revolution (1893) The Decision to Prevail Without Bloodshed
W. E. B. Du Bois and the NAACP (1909) The Decision Against Compromise
Marshall and the Marshall Plan (1947) The Decision to Rescue Europe
Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson (1945–47) The Decision to Cross the Color Line
Rosa Parks and the Right to Sit (1955) The Decision that Launched the Civil Rights Movement
Betty Friedan and a Woman’s Place (1963) The Decision to Revalue Values
Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act (1964) The Decision to Create Racial Justice
Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (1971) The Decision to Tell the Truth
James Burke and the Tylenol Murders (1982) The Decision for Corporate Ethics
Part Four: The Decision to Risk Everything
William the Conqueror and the Norman Conquest (1066) The Decision to Prevail
Washington and the Delaware Crossing (1776) The Decision to Win
Woodrow Wilson and World War I (1917) The Decision to Become a World Power
Jimmy Doolittle and the Tokyo Raid (1942) The Decision to Strike Back
Truman and the Berlin Airlift (1948) The Decision to “Contain” Communism
Edmund Hillary and Everest (1953) The Decision to Conquer
Richard M. Nixon and China (1972) The Decision to Coexist
Boris Yeltsin and the Communist Coup (1991) The Decision to Embrace a New World Order
Part Five: The Decision to Hope
Chief Joseph and the End of Battle (1877) The Decision for Peace
Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth (1889) The Decision to Give All You Have
Dwight Eisenhower and D-Day (1944) The Decision to Give the Order
Menachem Begin and El-Anwar Sadat (1978) The Decision for Mutual Survival
Todd Beamer and Flight 93 (2001) The Decision Against Terror
Further Reading
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