From the Book - First edition.
Prologue : "We do big things"
Truman at the creation : "The United States must run this show"
Truman at war : "Victory is a strong magnet"
"Enough is enough" : Eisenhower and retrenchment
"Boy commandos: of the New Frontier : Kennedy's anxious activism
"Mainly violins, with touches of brass" : Johnson against his advisers
"We have not been divided" : Johnson at war
Retrenchment and Vietnam : "Get going, take risks, be exciting"
Retrenchment and détente : "a nihilistic nightmare"
"Outspend them forever" : Reagan and the end of the Cold War
"No one else can do this" : Bush, Clinton, and the retrenchment that wasn't
"Things related and not" : Bush and September 11
"No wiggle room" : Obama and retrenchment
Epilogue : "If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing."
