Smoke in Their Eyes: Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars

Table of Contents

Contents Foreword ix Introduction 1 Part I. Leading toward Settlement 1 Thinking the Unthinkable 13 2 Why Matt Myers? 21 3 Sinking the Unthinkable 28 4 The Search for Common Ground Begins 36 5 Why Stan Glantz and Julia Carol? 40 6 “Everyone” Agreed! 49 7 The Real Leadership? 53 8 A Suspect Consensus 59 9 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 64 10 Day One: Four Meetings, Two Directions 70 11 One Stays, One Stays Out 78 Part II. The Settlement 12 Progress 89 13 Betrayed? 94 14 Slings and Arrows 103 15 With Friends Like These . . . 110 16 The Line Hardens 113 17 A Divorce in the Family 119 18 The Nicotine Fix 123 19 “I Say It’s Immunity, and I Say the Hell with It” 131 20 “When to Walk Away” 142 viii Smoke in Their Eyes 21 The Two Ks to the Rescue 146 22 The Deal Is Struck—and Stricken 153 Part III. The Rise and Fall of the McCain Bill 23 The Struggle for Clinton’s Nod 161 24 Unity under Clinton’s Umbrella? 173 25 Things Fall Apart—the Center Cannot Hold 176 26 The Moving Kessler-Koop Line 186 27 The All-Inclusive Anti-Immunity Club 194 28 McCain to the Rescue 201 29 A Cliffhanger on Liability 207 30 Not Good Enough 211 31 Worse Than Nothing! 217 32 Guess Who’s Not Coming to Dinner 220 33 The Window of Opportunity Slams Shut 226 Part IV. Lessons from the Settlement and Its Aftermath 34 What Was Gained? What Was Lost? 237 35 And the Rest of the Globe? 249 36 Thirteen Ways to Lead a Movement Backward 255 37 The Wrong Leaders for the Right Moment 280 38 Engaged in the Work of Democracy 285 Conclusion: With a Little Bit of Luck 293 Afterword: Lessons of the Tobacco Wars 299 Epilogue 305 Chronology of Key Events 311 Acknowledgments 313 Index 317 ...