Introduction -- Prologue: July 4, 1976 -- Memories of the Ford administration -- Detente and its discontents -- Jimmy Carter and the agonies of anti-politics -- Human rights and democratic collapse -- New morning -- Confronting the Evil Empire -- "Call it mysticism if you will" -- "We have an undercover thing" : the Iran-Contra Affair -- "Another time, another era" -- Realism and Reaganism -- The politics of Clintonism -- Clinton's comeback -- Animosities and interest : the impeachment of Clinton -- Irreparable harm: the election of 2000 -- Epilogue: October 13, 2001.
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