Part I: Youth (1915-1945)

1. States rights, religious freedom, and local self-government

2. The education of a leader

3. A Yale man

4. War

Part II: The Chicago years (1945-1960)

5. Joseph P. Kennedy

6. Eunice

7. The long courtship

8. Marriage

9. Religion and civil rights

10. Chicago politics

11. Dawn of the new frontier

12. The talent hunt

Part III: The Peace Corps (1961-1963)

13. The towering task

14. Shriver's Socratic seminar

15. The battle for independence

16. "The trip"

17. Storming Capitol Hill

18. Shriverizing

19. Timberlawn

20. Bigger, better, faster

21. Psychiatrists and astrologers

22. Growing pains

23. Tragedy

Part IV: The war on poverty (1964-1968)

24. Shriver for vice president

25. Origins of the war on poverty

26. "Mr. Poverty"

27. A beautiful hysteria

28. Mobilizing for war

29. Wooing congress

30. The law of the jungle

31. "Political pornography"

32. Head start

33. A revolution in poverty law

34. "Double commander-in-chief"

35. The OEO in trouble

36. King of the hill

37. What next?

Part V: France (1968-1970)

38. Springtime in Paris

39. "Sarjean Shreevair"

40. The 1968 election

41. Nixon in Paris

42. Au Revoir

Part VI: Democratic politics (1970-1976)

43. The politics of life

44. International men of mystery

45. Shriver for vice president

46. Shriver for president

Part VII: Private life, public service (1976-2003)

47. Nuclear politics

48. Special Olympics, a family affair

49. Faith and hope.