Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Audubon 1
6. Delusion Is the Thing with Feathers 3
7. Worlds Apart 25
8. The Revenge of Roger’s Angels 55
9. The List 79
10. The Improvisational Oncologist 115
11. Trump Days 131
12. President Trump, Seriously and “Appetite for Destruction” and The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump 163
13. Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic 217
14. The Obama Doctrine 243
15. Yellowstone 303
16. My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard 311
17. Bird in a Cage and The Ideology of Isolation and Giantess 413
18. Ladies in Waiting 437
19. The Reckoning 453
20. Listening for the Country 491
21. Permissions 513
22. Contributors 515