Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: John Cooke Indicts His Majesty the King -- A Pocket History of the Rule of Law -- 1: The Long Life of Lying -- 2: The Short Life of an Honest Man in Rome -- 3: The Miserable Life of a Feudal King -- 4: The Half-life of Feudalism and the Birth of Law -- 5: Poets as Midwives -- 6: The Cradle Century -- 7: A Rebel Even a King Would Save -- 8: Unparalleled Courage, Fraud, and Revolution -- 9: The Birth of a Republic -- Rebirth of the Feudal Mind in the United States -- 10: To Suspend the Law, Again -- 11: Special Courts, Again -- 12: War Privileges, Again -- 13: The Law of Nations Ignored -- 14: While Congress Slept -- 15: Today's Tug-of-War -- American Values Deeper than Capitalism, Deeper than Law -- 16: Beyond the Eternal Order of Lying -- 17: Beyond Pure Self-Interest -- 18: Beyond the Sword -- 19: Beyond the Easy Lie -- 20: Beyond Bribery -- An Age Ends -- 21: Finding Direction in a Time of Chaos -- 22: Democracy at the Crossroads -- Notes -- About the Author.