Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction to the Carleton Library Edition ix
4. Author’s Preface to the Carleton Library Edition xix
5. Foreword xxix
6. Presumption of Power
7. A Sizzling of Fuses 3
8. Sixty Days A-Go-Go 10
9. Paradox in Power
10. A Good Man in a Wicked Time 37
11. The Seminal Influences 49
12. The Captive Hero 60
13. The Politics of Utility 73
14. The Puzzle inside the Chinese Boxes 81
15. Renegade Out of Power
16. The Waltz of the Party Pashas 93
17. A Dark and Bellowing Presence 102
18. The Year Dalton Camp Blew His Cool 123
19. The Struggle for Succession 151
20. Convention 168
21. Done For 180
22. The New Leader 187
23. Exenise of Power
24. The Acrobats in the Empty Circus Tent 197
25. Walter Gordon: Troubled Canadian 212
26. A Footnote on "Sailor Jack" 231
27. The Exploding Epaulettes 241
28. The Great Flag Debate 254
29. The Temptations of Power 264
30. Emancipation of Power
31. The Revolt That Tried to Become a Revolution 295
32. Nine Momentous Days in April 306
33. Power Denied
34. The Death of Co-operative Federalism 316
35. The Uncertain Trumpet Call 337
36. The Man Who Tried to Become Canada 348
37. The Campaigner Who Never Was 365
38. The Reluctant Reckoning 377
39. Abdication of Power
40. The Munsinger Affair 389
41. Downhill All the Way 407
42. The Flowering of Pierre 435
43. Appendix A 473
44. Appendix B 478
45. Appendix C 480
46. Appendix D 484
47. Appendix E 490
48. Appendix F 498
49. Appendix G 503
50. Appendix H 509
51. Appendix I 511
52. Appendix J 512
53. Appendix K 515
54. Appendix L 519
55. Chronology 523
56. Acknowledgements 539
57. Index 541
58. Suggestions for Further Reading 559