| Acknowledgments | ix | ||
| Preface | xi | ||
| One A Capitol Idea | 1 | ||
| Two The Shamrock and the Dreidel | 13 | ||
| Three Up South | 35 | ||
| Four Hancock Street | 49 | ||
| Five Lockefield Gardens—Eden | 65 | ||
| Six Destination Unknown | 85 | ||
| Seven Hoops and Dreams | 123 | ||
| Eight Law School and Other Maladies | 141 | ||
| Nine The Windy City | 155 | ||
| Ten Law and Politics | 179 | ||
| Eleven Bean Town and Busing | 207 | ||
| Twelve Impeachment | 217 | ||
| Thirteen A Doctor in the House | 235 | ||
| Fourteen The Rest of the Bastards | 241 | ||
| Fifteen Of Polo and Poetry | 255 | ||
| Sixteen Color Codes | 265 | ||
| Seventeen Who's Coming to Dinner? | 273 | ||
| Eighteen The Darndest Things | 283 | ||
| Nineteen Lucky and Lucy | 291 | ||
| Twenty A Call to Serve | 299 | ||
| Twenty-One SecDef | 309 | ||
| Twenty-Two First Lady of the Pentagon | 319 | ||
| Twenty-Three A Song of Songs | 335 | ||
| Annex: Anne and Emmett, a one-act play by Janet Langhart Cohen | 343 | ||
| Index | 365 |