Going to Windward: A Mosbacher Family Memoir

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Foreword, by George H.W. Bush xi Prologue 1 1 From Less Than Nothing 9 2 The Boy Plunger 19 3 The Breaks of a Dozen Men 27 4 Guys and Dolls 34 5 “Paint It Blue and Sell It to Mosbacher” 46 6 Luck in the Breeze 56 7 “From Little Acorns Oak Trees Grow . . . You Don’t Have Any Acorns Yet” 65 8 Just Get the Crumbs 78 9 Three Cents in the Ground 92 10 Cover Boys 101 11 Stumbled into It 113 12 No Price on Life or Limb 126 13 Blessed Are the Gatherers 143 14 What Do You Win Versus What Do You Lose? 158 15 Do You Suppose They’ll Believe I Stayed? 174 16 “Please, I Don’t Like to Beg” 187 17 Mr. Secretary 198 18 Don’t Screw It Up 224 viii 夝 Contents 19 Actions, Not Just Words 246 20 Don’t Let Them Put You Out Front 260 21 When All Is Said and Done, There’s Nothing Left But Family 277 Epilogue 305 Index 313 ...