1. Introduction

2. What Makes Jimmy Run?

3. Transition and Honeymoon

4. Morality and Foreign Policy

5. The Dog Days of Summer and Fall

6. Can Carter Cope?

7. The Year of Negotiations

8. War on Inflation

9. Crescent of Crisis

10. A Growing Sense of Crisis

11. Foreign Policy, Patriotism, and Politics

12. Economic Pain and Politics

13. Gloom and Doom

14. Defeat

15. Epilogue.