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| Introduction: Willie Talk: The Hipster of the Breakfast Table | |
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| Willie Brown Talks the Talk | |
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| "Willie Brown, Who Are You Kidding?" | |
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| Willie Brown Is NOT Kidding | |
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| Consensus and Power | |
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| Sex Scandals and the Socializing Politician | |
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| The Power of Clothes: Don't Pull a Dukakis | |
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| Black Politics and Racism Today | |
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| Women in American Politics Today | |
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| Asking for Money Is Part of the Business | |
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| My Solution to the Campaign Finance Mess | |
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| Should One Politician Call the Cops on Another? | |
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| Willie Brown Rises in the World of Politics | |
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| A Black Teenager Arrives in San Francisco | |
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| Phil Burton, Herb Caen, Jesse Unruh, and Me | |
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| My Own Family Life | |
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| Gay Rights: How Some Historic Legislation Was Really Made | |
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| Starting On My Rise to Power | |
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| Stabbed in the Back on the Way Up | |
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| The Assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk | |
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| Loyalty and Betrayal on the Way to the Top | |
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| Elected Speaker | |
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| "An Offer Like That Could Land Us Both in Jail" | |
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| Old-Time Money Scams | |
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| "An Offer Like That Could Land Us Both in Jail" | |
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| My Money-Raising Principles | |
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| Tricks the FBI Played to Try to Get Me | |
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| Gun Control; Nelson Mandela's California Allies; and Saving Kindergartens | |
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| Sustaining Speakership: Most Magnificent Moment | |
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| The Godfather and the Father of the House | |
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| Da Mayor | |
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| Why Would You Want to Be Mayor? | |
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| Running for Mayor | |
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| Slick Willie: Da Mayor | |
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| A Mayor Is Actually Supposed to Solve Problems | |
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| The Selfish: The Killer Dynamic of City Politics | |
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| Traction and No Traction: Muni and Homelessness | |
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| Restoring the City's Crown Jewel | |
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| A Football Stadium and a Sadomasochistic Birthday Party | |
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| Schemers Scorned | |
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| Sacred Cartel | |
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| A Mayor Makes Friends with Warlords as Well as with Nice People | |
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| The Scared Days and an Urban Legend | |
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| The Political Life | |
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| What Is a Politician? | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |