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Looking Forward to it | |
July 2-3 | p. 1 |
No Time for Explanations | |
Cedar Rapids | |
Iowa City | |
Washington, Davenport, Cedar Rapids | |
Car Politics | |
Digression | p. 8 |
Stop | |
A Break in the Diary | |
The Secret That Everybody Knows | |
The Iowa Caucus and the New Hampshire Primary | |
Politics Without Consequences | |
July 4-6 | p. 9 |
Back to the Story I'm Supposed to Be Writing | |
A Missed Parade in Merrimack Where the Governor Handed Out Tongue Depressors | |
The Opening of an Office in Nashua, New Hampshire | |
House Parties in Munsonville, Atkinson, and Deerfield | |
Dean Headquarters, Burlington, Vermont | |
Digression | p. 13 |
Three Days Disappear | |
A Naked Dip in Lake Eden | |
A Long Quote from Lewis Rickel on Vermont Politics | |
Bernie Sanders and the Rise of the Vermont Liberal Machine | |
July 8-10 | p. 15 |
The Other Candidates | |
Kerry Won't Return My Phone Calls | |
Journeys with Wolves | |
More Butter More Syrup | |
The American Federation of Teachers | |
Concord, Boston, New York, Washington, D.C. | |
July 11-12 | p. 22 |
What Was That All About | |
The National Organization for Women | |
Kucinich, Moseley Braun, Sharpton, Dean | |
A Shoulder to Cry On | |
You Say "Metaphor," I Say "Tangent" | |
A Violent E-mail from San Leandro | |
Let All Know Who Would Enter Here | |
December 7-10 | p. 27 |
Leaving Home | |
I Do My Best Writing During Rainstorms | |
New York City, Dartmouth, New Hampshire | |
A Planeload of Shit Opens on the Lieberman Bus | |
The Great Debate | |
Hitchhiking Portsmouth | |
Digression | p. 36 |
What About Health Care? | |
Oops, I Broke a Sodomy Law | |
Seriously, Health Care | |
December 12-16 | p. 40 |
John Kerry Days | |
Cedar Rapids | |
Iowa City | |
Davenport | |
Jerry's Restaurant | |
Vilsak Fails to Endorse | |
Ottumwa | |
Fairfield | |
Des Moines | |
The Death Bus | |
Going Greyhound | |
December 18-21 | p. 47 |
Kucinich | |
Many, Many Stops in Iowa | |
Cleveland, Ohio, Baby | |
Lost Days in the Dean Van | |
Digression | p. 53 |
Front-loading | |
Lewis from India | |
McAuliffe's Gambit | |
Jeb Bush Opens the Nation's First Religious Prison | |
Home in California | |
The Early State | |
January 5-6 | p. 59 |
Happy New Year | |
I Miss My Girlfriend | |
What Happens on Planes | |
A Warning from the Captain | |
The South Africa Problem | |
January 7-11 | p. 65 |
The College Convention 2004 | |
The Youth Vote | |
What Youth Vote? | |
Manchester | |
Concord | |
Wesley Clark's Vision Thing | |
Iowa | |
January 12-15 | p. 73 |
The Perfect Storm | |
Josh Bearman's Choice | |
A Red Grand Am with a CD Player | |
Iowa City | |
Waterloo | |
The History of the Iowa Caucus | |
Dave Nagle | |
Perfectly Played Aces at the Foxhead Tavern | |
Digression | p. 79 |
In Response to the President's War Against Homosexuals | |
January 15-17 | p. 81 |
Ottumwa | |
Oskaloo | |
Newton | |
Bad Blood on Press Bus #1 | |
January 19-21 | p. 88 |
Des Moines | |
Locust Street | |
Evenings at the Fort | |
What Would John Kerry Do? | |
The Yeeeaaahhh Heard Around the World | |
New Hampshire | |
January 21-26 | p. 97 |
Josh Freaks Out | |
Smoke and Intrigue from a Room Down the Hall | |
Team McSweeney's | |
Static Line Jump 3,500 Feet | |
January 27 | p. 103 |
Primary Day | |
The New Pornography | |
Time Pilot | |
Ikari Warriors | |
Pengo | |
Front Line | |
Tutankhamen | |
Ghosts and Goblins | |
Qix | |
Bill Shaheen | |
The Long-Term Effects of Optimism | |
January 30-February 6 | p. 113 |
Newark | |
Delta | |
San Francisco | |
The Drug Question | |
Personal Stuff | |
Promises, Lies, and Screams | |
Wisconsin | |
February 8-11 | p. 119 |
Prologue as Epilogue | |
The Wisconsin Story | |
The Movie Metaphor | |
Howard Dean's Socks | |
Take What You Can Get | |
Drug Industry Whores | |
February 12-13 | p. 128 |
An Angry Question and Answer | |
Sandra's Dance of Hope | |
February 14-16 | p. 130 |
Into the Looking Glass Backward | |
Wausau! Wausau! Wausau! | |
The Orpheum | |
Everybody Hates the Media | |
February 17 | p. 135 |
Howard Dean's End | |
February 17 | p. 138 |
An Alternative Ending | |
What If This Was a Choose Your Own Adventure Book? | |
Bizarro Wisconsin | |
A Phoenix from the Landfill | |
California | |
February 26-28 | p. 143 |
Hollywood | |
The Famous People Issue | |
Angelyne | |
The Real California | |
David Poindexter | |
Arianna Huffington | |
Larry Flynt and the Violent Backlash of the American Dream | |
February 29-March 2 | p. 150 |
San Joaquin | |
Fifteenth and Guerrero | |
Edwards Drops Out | |
Kerry and Edwards? | |
Removing the Sting | |
No Room on the Campaign for Love | |
Trivia Night at Edinburgh Castle | |
Florida and Illinois | |
March 5-8 | p. 154 |
John Kerry's Victory Lap | |
John Ashcroft's Angry Pancreas | |
Violence in Duval County | |
Max Cleland's Wounds | |
Jacksonville | |
Tampa | |
Miami | |
A Bloody Shirt | |
Broward County | |
A Long Quote from Larry Davis | |
March 9-10 | p. 162 |
Bringing It Home | |
Surreal Images of Monster City | |
Kerry Busts the Nut | |
Napoleon's Pope | |
A Ride into Little Kurdistan Late at Night | |
Punk Rock Lesbians for Anarchy | |
JB's Pizza | |
Dan McCarthy Swears to Play It Straight | |
And I Will Show You Rust | |
Pennsylvania | |
April 17-21 | p. 167 |
Republicans in the Wild | |
Threats from the Editor | |
Notes Left in the Stairwell | |
Quentin Tarantino's Redemption | |
First-Class Seat at the Apocalypse | |
Allentown | |
Harrisburg | |
Reading | |
Lancaster | |
Pittsburgh | |
Fire over Steel Town | |
April 22-25 | p. 174 |
The Hunt Club | |
Specter Gets Grilled | |
What Does the Sign Say? | |
Chiodo's | |
The Greatest Swing Voter That Ever Lived | |
Welcome to Homestead, the Former Steel Capital of the World | |
West Virginia and Ohio | |
April 26-29 | p. 180 |
The Jobs-First Express | |
Wheeling, West Virginia | |
Down in the Coal Mine | |
Back on the Bus | |
Canonsburg | |
Strip Club by the Highway | |
Rain in Youngstown | |
Cleveland Forever | |
Three Points of View on George W. Bush | |
You--Digression | p. 193 |
How to Meet the President | |
The Taxes You'll Pay Later | |
Me--May 1-6 | p. 197 |
The Burning McDonald's | |
Questions for the President | |
The Rise of Capitalist Nationalism | |
South Bend | |
Niles | |
Kalamazoo | |
Detroit | |
Us--May 7-9 | p. 208 |
The Next Logical Step | |
The Ballad of Christine Bell | |
Shifting Points of View | |
Chicago | |
Dubuque | |
LaCrosse | |
Summer's Promise | |
June 3-9 | p. 221 |
Chicago | |
Burlington | |
The Trouble with Small Planes | |
Howard Dean Takes His Revenge | |
June 10-21 | p. 228 |
Return to Lake Eden | |
Through the White Mountains | |
Lewis Rickel Discusses Ronald Reagan and Central America | |
Portland | |
The Truth About Hardwood Floors | |
The Benefits of Charity | |
A Small House and a Pretty Wife | |
The Senator from Maine | |
Double A Baseball, The Sea Dogs Get Beat | |
Lemony Snicket | |
Tobias Wolff | |
San Francisco, Los Angeles | |
What's the Point of Being Josh Bearman? | |
Dick Cheney Lies | |
Bush Backs Dick Up | |
Five Miles on Sunset Boulevard | |
An Unclear Sky | |
Baton Rouge | |
John Edwards Addresses the Louisiana Democrats | |
Revelations in New Orleans | |
Cafe du Monde | |
Cheney Lies Again | |
Wayne Parent Explains Louisiana Politics | |
Bourbon Street | |
Breakdown in the Big Easy | |
Chad Prather, M.D. | |
Monica Chavez Gets Married | |
Low Ceilings in the French Quarter | |
Michelle Orange Tells Me What My Problem Is | |
Dick Cheney Drags Down the Ticket | |
Running Out of Steam | |
A Thousand Dollars Wasted | |
Cheney Lies, He Lies, He Lies | |
June 22-24 | p. 228 |
Milwaukee | |
The Green Split | |
What's Wrong with Ralph Nader? | |
Romance in Brew Town: Bikers for Cobb | |
Medea Benjamin | |
Camejo Rising | |
June 26-29 | p. 239 |
Ralph Nader | |
The Rising Curtain | |
July 11-25 | p. 253 |
Just Getting Started | |
Slow Train to Beantown | |
Ethan Hawke | |
Thomas Patterson | |
What Bearman Knows | |
A Map of the World, Actual Size | |
July 26-28 | p. 263 |
A Letter from Iraq | |
The Convention Begins | |
The Triumph of Hope over Fear--Barack Obama | |
Jesse Jackson | |
John Edwards: A Gambling Boat from a Prison Town on the Outskirts of Chicago | |
Unfurling the Sails | |
July 29 | p. 269 |
It's a Boat | |
The Honorable Max Cleland | |
Jim Rassmann Cleans Up His Act | |
Wesley Clark | |
The Band of Brothers | |
John Kerry Reporting for Duty | |
Notes | p. 279 |
Acknowledgments | p. 305 |
Credits for the Photographs | p. 307 |
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