From the Book - First edition.
Part I: Into the White House. The 1976 campaign ; A perilous transition ; The making of the modern Vice President ; A new kind of First Lady ; The indispensable man
Part II: Energy. The moral equivalent of war ; Energizing Congress ; The Senate graveyard ; Energy and the dollar at the Bonn summit ; Into the pork barrel, reluctantly
Part III: The environment. An early interest ; The water wars ; Alaska forever wild, despite its senators
Part IV: The economy. The great stagflation ; The consumer populist ; Saving New York and Chrysler
Part V: Peace in the Middle East. The clash of peace and politics ; Sadat changes history ; Carter's triumph at Camp David ; A cold peace
Part VI: Peace in the rest of the world. The Panama Canal and Latin America ; The Soviet Union ; Afghanistan
Part VII: The unraveling: resignations and reshuffling. The "malaise" speech ; Resignations and reshuffling
Part VIII: Iran. The rise of the Ayatollah ; The fall of the president
Part IX: A catastrophic conclusion. "Where's the Carter bill, when we need it?" ; No good deed goes unpunished ; Are you better off ...? ; Final days.