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9 | (8) |
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17 | (18) |
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PART II An American, Chicago Born |
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35 | (32) |
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Chapter 3 The Last of Spring |
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40 | (13) |
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Chapter 4 The Longest of Long Shots |
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53 | (14) |
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PART III The U.S. Congress: From Camelot to Quagmire |
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67 | (38) |
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Chapter 5 "Here, Sir, the People Govern" |
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74 | (17) |
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91 | (14) |
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105 | (56) |
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Chapter 7 1968: Year of Turmoil |
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110 | (9) |
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Chapter 8 The Job That Couldn't Be Done |
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119 | (11) |
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130 | (17) |
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Chapter 10 NATO and Nixon's Fall |
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147 | (14) |
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PART V Javelin Catcher: Inside the Ford White House |
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161 | (42) |
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Chapter 11 Restoring Trust |
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165 | (11) |
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176 | (16) |
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Chapter 13 An Agonizing Reappraisal |
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192 | (11) |
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PART VI Fighting the Cold War |
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203 | (38) |
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Chapter 14 Unfinished Business |
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207 | (6) |
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Chapter 15 Turning On the Lights |
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213 | (9) |
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Chapter 16 Hold the SALT: Tension over Detente |
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222 | (11) |
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Chapter 17 The 1976 Defeat |
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233 | (8) |
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241 | (36) |
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Chapter 18 Searle's Sweet Success |
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245 | (13) |
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Chapter 19 From Malaise to Morning in America |
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258 | (9) |
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Chapter 20 Our Rural Period, Interrupted |
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267 | (10) |
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PART VIII Leaning Forward |
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277 | (86) |
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Chapter 21 Here We Go Again |
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284 | (6) |
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Chapter 22 Dogs Don't Bark at Parked Cars |
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290 | (15) |
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Chapter 23 Bears in the Woods |
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305 | (11) |
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Chapter 24 The National Security Council |
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316 | (15) |
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Chapter 25 The Agony of Surprise |
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331 | (18) |
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349 | (14) |
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PART IX Into the Graveyard of Empires |
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363 | (48) |
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Chapter 27 Special Operations |
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367 | (12) |
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Chapter 28 Little Birds in a Nest |
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379 | (16) |
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Chapter 29 Kabul Falls, Karzai Rises |
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395 | (16) |
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PART X Saddam's Miscalculation |
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411 | (60) |
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Chapter 30 Out of the Box |
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416 | (9) |
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Chapter 31 The Case for Regime Change |
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425 | (18) |
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Chapter 32 A Failure of Diplomacy |
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443 | (16) |
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Chapter 33 Exit the Butcher of Baghdad |
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459 | (12) |
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PART XI The Occupation of Iraq |
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471 | (72) |
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Chapter 34 Catastrophic Success |
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479 | (14) |
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Chapter 35 Mission Accomplished? |
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493 | (15) |
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Chapter 36 Too Many Hands on the Steering Wheel |
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508 | (16) |
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Chapter 37 Liberation from the Occupation |
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524 | (19) |
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PART XII Wartime Detention |
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543 | (68) |
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Chapter 38 The Least Worst Place |
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554 | (20) |
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Chapter 39 The Twentieth Hijacker |
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574 | (13) |
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Chapter 40 Law in a Time of War |
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587 | (14) |
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Chapter 41 The Road Not Traveled |
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601 | (10) |
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PART XIII Pulling On Our Boots: Challenges and Controversies Beyond the War Zones |
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611 | (46) |
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Chapter 42 Katrina and the Challenge of New Institutions |
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616 | (11) |
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627 | (18) |
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Chapter 44 The Army We Had |
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645 | (12) |
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PART XIV The Long, Hard Slog |
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657 | (70) |
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Chapter 45 Hands Off the Bicycle Seat |
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661 | (10) |
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Chapter 46 The Dead Enders |
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671 | (10) |
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Chapter 47 Eyes on Afghanistan |
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681 | (11) |
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Chapter 48 Iraq's Summer of Violence |
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692 | (12) |
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704 | (7) |
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Chapter 50 After Tides and Hurricanes |
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711 | (16) |
| Acknowledgments |
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727 | (4) |
| List of Acronyms |
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731 | (2) |
| List of Illustrations |
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733 | (6) |
| Notes |
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739 | (54) |
| Index |
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