Cast of Characters (starting p. viii)
1. "Three sizes too large" (starting p. 1)
2. "You judge. I can't." (starting p. 3)
3. "I hope it's the same team again, Henry" (starting p. 15)
4. "You men who have nigger children" (starting p. 28)
5. "I'll be different, not like I used to be" (starting p. 38)
6. "To err is Truman" (starting p. 51)
7. "My very stomach turned" (starting p. 65)
8. "The South can be considered safely Democratic" (starting p. 75)
9. "No one laughs at Harold Stassen" (starting p. 83)
10. "Maybe Masaryk had cancer" (starting p. 92)
11. "The Bronx is not cheering" (starting p. 105)
12. "A lost ball in high grass" (starting p. 119)
13. "We have a lot of Communists in New York" (starting p. 133)
14. "Professors who scratch their waffles" (starting p. 148)
15. "Why can't a simple soldier be left alone ...?" (starting p. 158)
16. "It's such outrageous sport, really" (starting p. 171)
17. "It might have been worse" (starting p. 181)
18. "Shifty and somewhat slimy" (starting p. 194)
19. "What do these people want?" (starting p. 201)
20. "The bright sunshine of human rights" (starting p. 206)
21. "Behold, the validity of Christian principles" (starting p. 219)
22. "An interesting and instructive evening" (starting p. 226)
23. "The wool hat woman of Byron, Georgia" (starting p. 237)
24. "I have been thinking of you holding the casket" (starting p. 249)
25. "Half of the gallery are FBI agents" (starting p. 258)
26. "Bases, bombs, Moscow, Leningrad, etc." (starting p. 272)
27. "A last hysterical gasp of an expiring administration" (starting p. 279)
28. "I have never laid eyes on him" (starting p. 291)
29. "The unseemly spectacle we are now witnessing" (starting p. 302)
30. "You simply can't make a politician out of him" (starting p. 312)
31. "Fifty million pounds of lard" (starting p. 330)
32. "Daddy, you shouldn't say ̀hell'" (starting p. 343)
33. "Ain't he coming?" (starting p. 362)
34. "The campaign is ending and you still don't know" (starting p. 376)
35. "Don't bother me anymore; I'm going to bed" (starting p. 385)
36. "One for the books" (starting p. 405)
Acknowledgments (starting p. 413)
Notes (starting p. 414)
Sources (starting p. 487)
Index (starting p. 509).