Table of Contents

The Twenty-Five-Year Conversation     9
The Aristocratic Cousinhood     39
Sunset Glow before the Storm     63
The Form Most Pleasing to His Audience     95
Billy Hartington Wants to Know     122
Straw in the Wind     138
What about You?     154
By Watching England We Will Have Much to Learn     169
A Divided Nature     195
To Find a Beginning     221
On the Churchill Ticket     235
What the Man Would Like to Be     258
The Meaning of "Miscalculation"     289
The Edge of the Precipice     316
The Go-Between     334
A Lesson in Duty     359
In Reading the History of Past Wars and How They Began     383
Before It Is Too Late     413
Epilogue     439
Acknowledgments     443
Source Notes     445
Index     493