Cont : On the street where I lived -- Leaving home -- Ships at sea -- Love and law -- A short primer in Vermont politics -- Maverick Republican -- Making environmental history -- David and Goliath -- The realities of power -- After Nixon -- The walking wounded -- Leo Ryan, baby seals, Solzhenitsyn, and energy wars -- Musical homes -- Trickle-down economy, the Contras, and the evil empire -- The second time around -- Protecting tradition, "The October surprise", Clarence Thomas, and working for an international nuclear test ban -- Building the case for education in the shadow of Gingrich's Contract with America -- Again the maverick : health care and impeachment -- The Singing Senators -- The days before the switch -- Making history -- The reaction -- September 11 -- My challenge to the country.