Man of paradox -- The oil in the lemon grove -- The punishing father -- The saintly mother -- The unsmiling child -- Splitting and entitlement -- Death and two brothers -- Presidential fever -- The monastic years -- The firt law case: failure -- A problem with touching -- Fighting Quaker -- The dragon slayer -- The first informer -- The impact of Whittaker Chambers -- The destruction of Alger Hiss -- On women and power: Pat and the pink lady -- Nixon among the giants -- Checkers -- McCarthy -- Stevenson and Nixon -- Prelude to Vietnam -- Hidden problems: the early surfacing -- Death wishes -- On the throwing of rocks -- Khrushchev -- The assassination track -- Nixon and Kennedy -- A problem with Donald -- The drubbing -- The private man -- The New York years -- A series of accidents -- The Nixon character.