The story of J. William Fulbright "from his boyhood in Arkansas to his student days at Oxford, from his early days in Congress ... to his later career in the Senate, where his sometimes unorthodox opinions often called down upon his head the wrath of both the legislative and the executive branches." -- Dust jacket.

"I would like people to say I restored possibility in American life." This was President Bill Clinton aboard Air Force One, in a private interview at the end of Haynes Johnson's journey through an America torn by divisions and apprehensive of the future. For his first book since the prophetic best-selling Sleepwalking Through History, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist interviewed grassroots Americans from New England to the Sunbelt, from the heartland...

"'Rendering, in text and photographs, of the documentary written and produced by David Lowe for CBS reports.'"