[Preface to the Paperback Edition] It is a shaping time in our nation and in the world. We have the opportunity for a new cast at history.

[Introduction] We can do better. Much, much better.

If our leaders at all levels are to be capable of lifting us and moving us, they re going to have to believe in the people of this nation--a people so able to perform splendidly and so inclined to perform indifferently, so troubled in their efforts to find a future worthy of their past, so capable of greatness and so desperately in need of encouragement to achieve that greatness.