Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preamble: Knees up Mother Brown; 1 From Laughter to Loathing; 2 Too Small to Be a Republic; 3 Never Be the First to Stop Applauding; 4 Lord Rosebery Intervenes: the Art of Backing 29 a Winner; 5 Praying for the Senators; 6 Run by Apes; 7 Double Tracking; 8 The Vicar of Swindon and the Joys of Public Speaking; 9 The Leader: EG Whitlam; 10 Some Journalists are Bastards; 11 Guess Again; 12 The Continuing Appeal of Gold Spoons; 13 'Your Honour, Given Our Respective Positions ... '; 14 The Legend of the Cook County Democrat: the Cemetery Vote
15 The Beauty of the Qualifying Phrase16 Jimmy Carter's Cold Shower; 17 Beating Rumours: the U-boat Strategy; 18 Advise and Dissent; 19 'And the Asylum Doors Clang Open'; 20 Mastering the Chair; 21 'Say Something in German'; 22 'I Knew Thomas Jefferson': the Counterattack; 23 Giving the People What They Want; 24 'Not Much of a Book'; 25 This Sporting Life; 26 'You Gives It. You Takes It. And You Don't Fucking Grumble!'; 27 The Americans; 28 Three Envelopes; 29 Your Family Will Thank You; Epilogue: Walking in the Snow; Acknowledgements; Index
