William S. Cohen, born in Bangor, Maine, was the eldest son of a Jewish father and a Protestant Irish mother. Janet Langhart, an African-American, was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana by her single parent mother, a Southern Baptist. The book draws fascinating parallels between the histories of two people from different regions, races, and religions, as both are witnesses to and targets of the social tensions of the day. Opposites in so many ways-in color, faith, and culture-seemingly a bundle of contradictions, they meet in 1974, become friends, and eventually fall in love. They were married on Valentine's Day 1996.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1. A Capitol Idea
Chapter 3 2. Hancock Street
Chapter 4 3. Up South
Chapter 5 4. Shamrock and A Dreidel
Chapter 6 5. Lockfield Gardens
Chapter 7 6. Destination Unknown
Chapter 8 7. Hoops and Dreams
Chapter 9 8. Law School and Other Maladies
Chapter 10 9. The Windy City
Chapter 11 10. Law and Politics
Chapter 12 11. Bean Town and Busing
Chapter 13 12. Impeachment
Chapter 14 13. A Doctor in the House
Chapter 15 14. The Rest of the Bastards
Chapter 16 15. Of Polo and Poetry
Chapter 17 16. Color Codes
Chapter 18 17. Who's Coming to Dinner?
Chapter 19 18. The Darndest Things
Chapter 20 19. Lucky and Lucy
Chapter 21 20. POTUS
Chapter 22 21. Doubtless
Chapter 23 22. First Lady of the Pentagon
Chapter 24 23. Song of Songs
Chapter 25 The Annex
