Author's Note viii
One Starting Early
1(6)
Two The Rays and the Rices
7(13)
Three Married at Last
20(12)
Four "Johnny It's a Girl!"
32(8)
Five "I Need a Piano!"
40(9)
Six My Parents Were Teachers
49(10)
Seven Something in the Water
59(11)
Eight School Days
70(8)
Nine Summer Respite
78(5)
Ten Turning Up the Heat in Birmingham
83(5)
Eleven 1963
88(16)
Twelve Integration?
104(6)
Thirteen Tuscaloosa
110(10)
Fourteen Denver Again
120(11)
Fifteen Leaving the South Behind
131(11)
Sixteen Cancer Intrudes
142(5)
Seventeen Starting Early (Again)
147(7)
Eighteen College Years
154(5)
Nineteen A Change of Direction
159(9)
Twenty "Rally, Sons (and Daughters) of Notre Dame"
168(5)
Twenty-One A New Start
173(9)
Twenty-Two A Lost Year
182(7)
Twenty-Three Senator Stanford's Farm
189(13)
Twenty-Four My Rookie Season
202(13)
Twenty-Five The Darkest Moment of My Life
215(8)
Twenty-Six "The Moving Van Is Here"
223(7)
Twenty-Seven Inside the Pentagon
230(9)
Twenty-Eight Back to Stanford
239(5)
Twenty-Nine D.C. Again
244(10)
Thirty "I Don't Think This Is What Karl Marx Had in Mind"
254(17)
Thirty-One Back in California
271(5)
Thirty-Two Learning Compassion
276(6)
Thirty-Three Finding a New President for Stanford
282(5)
Thirty-Four Provost of the University
287(6)
Thirty-Five Tough Decisions
293(18)
Thirty-Six The Governor's Campaign
311(7)
Thirty-Seven Florida
318(4)
Thirty-Eight "The Saints Go Marching In"
322(5)
A Note on Sources 327(3)
Acknowledgments 330(4)
Index 334