Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface. Twenty Words ix
4. chapter 1 An Eighteenth-Century Clause 1
5. chapter 2 Parsing the Pardon Power 16
6. chapter 3 Washingtonian Mercy 33
7. chapter 4 Politics by Other Means 45
8. chapter 5 A Tale of Two Clemencies 64
9. chapter 6 Our Pardon Dystopia 82
10. chapter 7 The Future of Twenty Words 120
11. Notes 133
12. Acknowledgments 167
13. Index 169