A coming together and a falling apart -- Origins of a Texas gentleman -- The Texas kingmaker -- Going national -- Making Woodrow Wilson president -- The hungry horde -- Wall Street and Mexico -- The Schrippenfest affair -- Trying to end the war in Europe -- America drifts into the war -- 1917 -- The inquiry and Fourteen Points -- Russia -- Armistice -- The covenant -- The end of a friendship -- The end of the treaty -- Watching the world go by.