Known & Unknown Endnotes
Click on Prologue or Chapter to see a list of individual endnotes.
- Author's Note
- Part 1: Lessons in Terror
- Chapter 1: Smiling Death
- Chapter 2: Into the Swamp
- Part 2: An American, Chicago Born
- Chapter 3: The Last of Spring
- Chapter 4: The Longest of Long Shots
- Part 3: The U.S. Congress: From Camelot to Quagmire
- Chapter 5: "Here, Sir, the People Govern"
- Chapter 6: Young Turks
- Part 4: In Nixon's Arena
- Chapter 7: 1968: Year of Turmoil
- Chapter 8: The Job That Couldn't Be Done
- Chapter 9: Counsellor
- Chapter 10: NATO and Nixon's Fall
- Part 5: Javelin Catcher: Inside the Ford White House
- Chapter 11: Restoring Trust
- Chapter 12: A Rocky Start
- Chapter 13: An Agonizing Reappraisal
- Part 6: Fighting the Cold War
- Chapter 14: Unfinished Business
- Chapter 15: Turning On the Lights
- Chapter 16: Hold the SALT: Tension over Detente
- Chapter 17: The 1976 Defeat
- Part 7: Back to Reality
- Chapter 18: Searle's Sweet Success
- Chapter 19: From Malaise to Morning in America
- Chapter 20: Our Rural Period, Interrupted
- Part 8: Leaning Forward
- Chapter 21: Here We Go Again
- Chapter 22: Dogs Don't Bark at Parked Cars
- Chapter 23: Bears in the Woods
- Chapter 24: The National Security Council
- Chapter 25: The Agony of Surprise
- Chapter 26: War President
- Part 9: Into the Graveyard of Empires
- Chapter 27: Special Operations
- Chapter 28: Little Birds in a Nest
- Chapter 29: Kabul Falls, Karzai Rises
- Part 10: Saddam's Miscalculation
- Chapter 30: Out of the Box
- Chapter 31: The Case for Regime Change
- Chapter 32: A Failure of Diplomacy
- Chapter 33: Exit the Butcher of Baghdad
- Part 11: The Occupation of Iraq
- Chapter 34: Catastrophic Success
- Chapter 35: Mission Accomplished?
- Chapter 36: Too Many Hands on the Steering Wheel
- Chapter 37: Liberation from the Occupation
- Part 12: Wartime Detention
- Chapter 38: The Least Worst Place
- Chapter 39: The Twentieth Hijacker
- Chapter 40: Law in a Time of War
- Chapter 41: The Road Not Traveled
- Part 13: Pulling On Our Boots: Challenges and Controversies Beyond the War Zones
- Chapter 42: Katrina and the Challenge of New Institutions
- Chapter 43: Gardening
- Chapter 44: The Army We Had
- Part 14: The Long, Hard Slog
- Chapter 45: Hands Off the Bicycle Seat
- Chapter 46: The Dead Enders
- Chapter 47: Eyes on Afghanistan
- Chapter 48: Iraq's Summer of Violence
- Chapter 49: Farewells
- Chapter 50: After Tides and Hurricanes