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Contents

1 On the Street Where I Lived

2 Leaving Home

3 Ships at Sea

4 Love and Law

5 A Short Primer in Vermont Politics

6 Maverick Republican

7 Making Environmental History

8 David and Goliath

9 The Realities of Power

10 After Nixon

11 The Walking Wounded

12 Leo Ryan, Baby Seals, Solzhenitsyn, and Energy Wars

13 Musical Homes

14 Trickle-Down Economy, the Contras, and the Evil Empire

15 The Second Time Around

16 Protecting Tradition, "The October Surprise," Clarence Thomas, and Working for an International Nuclear Test Ban

17 Building the Case for Education in the Shadow of Gingrich's Contract with America

18 Again the Maverick: Health Care and Impeachment

19 The Singing Senators

20 The Days Before the Switch

21 Making History

22 The Reaction

23 September 11

24 My Challenge to the Country

Afterword

Appendix: My Declaration, May 24, 2001, Burlington, Vermont

Acknowledgments

Index