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Table of Contents: “…Countdown -- Path to the classroom -- The rookie -- Realities of the work -- Staying power -- Mastering the craft -- Becoming a leader -- The system -- Black teachers matter -- Clean slate.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: My Last Game -- Part One: Seasons of Youth -- One: Playing Games -- Two: Hey, Look Me Over -- Part Two: Under The Golden Dome -- Three: In the Land of Legends -- Four: Aches and Pains ... and Dreams Come True -- Five: My Notre Dame -- September 22, 1969: -- September 27, 1969: -- October 19, 1969: -- Part Three: Playing for Pay -- Six: Rookies and Veterans -- Seven: The End of Toughness -- Transactions -- Eight: The Owners and the Owned -- Part Four: The End of Autumn…”
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Table of Contents: “…Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Off the wall and down the rabbit hole -- Making the Roberts court -- The rookie and sophomore years -- The court of public opinion, the Supreme Court, and gun rights -- Business stooge or umpire? …”

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Table of Contents: “…Preface: Striking the balance on the Roberts Court -- From off the wall and down the rabbit hole -- Making the Roberts Court -- The rookie and sophomore years -- The court of public opinion, the Supreme Court, and gun rights -- Business stooge or umpire? …”

Table of Contents: “…The death of a boss -- The road to California -- The GI Bill of Rights -- Hat in the ring -- The education of a rookie -- Segregation and the unruh civil rights act -- Fair housing and white backlash -- Animal house -- Backstabbing democrats -- Dirty dealings and high idealism -- A full-time legislature -- Unruh, Robert Kennedy, and the anti-war movement -- Unruh versus Reagan -- The man with the money.…”
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Table of Contents: “…COLD BLACK RIVER -- 4. ROMANCE -- 5. ROOKIE -- 6. ON THE EDGE OF TOWN -- 7. NECESSARY ROUGHNESS -- 8. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Metrics and dashboards are for rookies -- Mistake # 18. Forecasting to 60 percent accuracy -- Mistake # 19. …”

Table of Contents: “…The ER doc : who's calling the shots? -- The rookie : Bruno's man down -- The scrambler : how to prevent a murder -- The psychodynamo : learning to listen with a professional ear -- The jailer : if you want to go, you have to stay -- The jury : playing the suicide card -- The clairvoyant : whose life is it anyway? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Start in the Middle -- The Beginning -- No Longer a Game -- Going to School, Not Necessarily at School -- For a While the Path Seemed Really Clear -- Not the Guy in the Back of the Room -- Leaning Out -- Leaning In -- Back on Track -- Winning -- Showtime -- Rookie Mistakes -- Rookie Promise -- Showing Up -- Mount Weather -- A Safe Place to Call Home -- Officer Mike -- Jesse Ventura and Two Drunk Firefighters -- The Ripples of 9/11 and Paul Wellstone -- Balance -- New Year, New Governor -- (Photographs) -- City Builder Starts Building City -- McManus -- Making the Save, Giving Up the Rebound -- The Thin Line between Love and Respect -- When Kids Kill Kids -- Results -- Not So Isolated after All -- Bridge Collapse -- Two Campaigns -- Two Campaigns of My Own -- More Than Point A to Point B -- The Next Generation -- Tornados Real and Imagined -- Minneapolis-the Brand -- The Big Bang -- The Way He Looked at His Son -- "No Más" -- (Photographs) -- My Favorite Year (Part 1) -- Big Night in the Summer of Love -- My Favorite Year (Part 2) -- The End, Almost Literally -- Afterword -- Why I Wrote This Book -- Index.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Young Pedro -- Life after Cuba closes -- The Minor Leagues -- A fast start to a Big League career -- Injured rookie wins unprecedented batting crown -- Oliva leads pennant push -- Life's highs and lows -- The great pennant race of 1967 -- Marriage and family in the Year of the Pitcher -- Baseball's summer of change -- Twins repeat with a new Bill in charge -- Family reunions and the career-changing knee injury -- The extremes of 1972 -- The final years as a player -- Tony O: The Man -- The Hall of Fame question.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Boots down for Sam Bass -- Ranger rookie -- Texas Alsace -- Death on a hilltop -- Pistol sights and maverick brands -- Making Hell pay taxes -- "The meanest thing I ever did" -- The worst outlaw since Sam Bass -- Prayer on Devil's river -- Beat of the draw -- Born to bust barb -- Butch Cassidy's right bower -- Two on a trail -- Barbs sprouted bombs -- Voting Hell's border -- Rock and rope -- War on the salt grass -- Courthouse killing -- Duel at Dimmitt -- Rustler roundup -- Arson on the range -- Ranger forever.…”

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: The politician's path -- "On behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak" -- The era of good feelings -- The legacy of Appendix E -- The ballad of Lilly Ledbetter -- The war against precedent -- The hunter -- Lawyers, guns, and money -- The unrequited bipartisanship of Barack Obama -- Wise Latina -- Money talks -- Samuel Alito's question -- The rookie -- The ninety-page swan song of John Paul Stevens -- "With all due deference to separation of powers" -- The retired justices dissent -- Softball politics -- The Tea Party and the justice's wife -- The Thomas court -- "Democracy is not a game" -- "You should do it" -- Broccoli -- The "effective" argument -- Epilogue: The Roberts court.…”

Table of Contents: “…The politician's path -- "On behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak" -- The era of good feelings -- The legacy of Appendix E -- The ballad of Lilly Ledbetter -- The war against precedent -- The hunter -- Lawyers, guns, and money -- The unrequited bipartisanship of Barack Obama -- Wise Latina -- Money talks -- Samule Alito's question -- The rookie -- The ninety-page swan song of John Paul Stevens -- "With all due deference to separation of powers" -- The retired justices dissent -- Softball politics -- The Tea Party and the justice's wife -- The Thomas court -- "Democracy is not a game" -- "You should do it" -- Broccoli -- The "effective" argument -- Epilogue : the Roberts court.…”

Table of Contents: “…President: appointment and confirmation -- Learning the ropes: a rookie arrives -- Inside the courtroom: views of the bench -- Silver tongues and quill pens: oral argument -- Nine justices, one bench: building consensus -- (Not so) good behavior: discord and feuds -- A peek inside chambers: clerk stories -- "Welcome to the chain gang": managing the workload -- Timing it right: stepping down.…”

Table of Contents: “…Trips, Traps, Tropes: Avoiding Rookie Mistakes --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Main Street ; In the groves of academe ; Governor ; In the maestro's orchestra ; The subprime spark ; Rookie season -- The crisis. First tremors, first response ; One step forward ; The end of the beginning ; Bear Stearns : before Asia opens ; Fannie and Freddie : a long, hot summer ; Lehman : the dam breaks ; AIG : "It makes me angry" ; We turn to Congress : "Fifty percent hell no" ; A cold wind ; Transition ; From financial crisis to economic crisis -- Aftermath. …”