My life in progressive politics: against the grain

Foreword / by Joe Biden

A political life

Against the grain

Oakington

A plan for life

Reform and independence

Against the legislative tide

Regulating savings and loan associations

Kennedy Man

A prosecutor the organization didn't want

A thirty-two-month learning experience

A tangle of savings and loan scams

Kidnapping, murder, and assassination

Challenging the Democratic machine

A break with the past

A freshman senator's voice

Defending the great Warren Court decisions

"A voteless people is a hopeless people"

Fairness in federal court

Congress and the City of Washington

The hardest fights

Vietnam and the political costs of war

The environment and overpopulation

Gun control

One progressive position too many

Citizen public service

Epilogue: An open letter to my grandchildren (and their generation).