1. The Young American

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgment VII
3. Foreword IX
4. Contents XIII
5. Introduction XV
6. 1. The Young American 1
7. 2. The Confidence Man 11
8. 3. Texas 22
9. 4. The Substance of Power 41
10. 5. Into the Vineyard 56
11. 6. Talleyrand of the Treasury 70
12. 7. Bull of the Woods 87
13. 8. The Price of Success 99
14. 9. The Business Constituency 114
15. 10. Private Interlude 124
16. 11. Within a Budding Tragedy 139
17. 12. A Pigmy on the Prairie 150
18. 13. He Will Not Presume 162
19. 14. Principle Abandoned 175
20. 15. A Sixty-Year-Old Public Man 185
21. 16. The Search 202
22. Notes 217
23. Bibliography 271
24. Index 279