Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-397) and index.

Prologue -- Part one: Dark winter (January-March 2021) 1. Day one -- 2. Taking the call -- 3. Visions of rescue -- 4. Waiting for the jab -- 5. The nod of the head -- 6. Take me home -- 7. Normal people -- 8. The Captain Cook incident -- 9. Border crush -- Part two: Green shoots (April-June 2021) 10. Biden's war -- 11. Hug Bibi tight -- 12. Rabbit ears -- 13. Go left, young man -- 14. Face to face -- 15. Independence day -- 16. The highway to bipartisanship -- Part three: Leaving (June-August 2021) 17. Gut check -- 18. The kill list -- 19. Withdrawal -- 20. The white scarves -- 21. John Bass stands at the gates of despair -- 22. Sullivan's choice -- 23. Lily pads -- 24. The red dot -- 25. The bitter end -- Part four: The bog (September-December 2021) 26. Mr. Zelensky comes to Washington -- 27. Manchinema -- 28. Mark Milley's map -- 29. The big ask -- 30. Pressure drop -- 31. Variant of concern -- 32. The eruption -- Part five: Never-ending winter (January-February 2022) 33. Where have the better angels gone? -- 34. Get caught trying -- 35. Vacancy -- 36. The way to Joe Manchin's heart -- Part six : Eastern fronts (February-April 2022) 37. "I know what you're doing" -- 38. The end of the dream -- 39. The battle of Kyiv -- 40. Bankova -- 41. The gorge -- Part seven: The counteroffensive (May-November 2022) 42. The spring of self-pity -- 43. Dobbs v. Biden -- 44. The bath -- 45. Truth and reconciliation -- 46. War games -- 47. Waves crashing.

"In The Last Politician, Franklin Foer dramatizes the first two years of the presidency of Joseph R. Biden, concluding with the historic midterm elections. It is a high-definition portrait of a president who used old-fashioned politics--deal-making and compromise--to move his agenda forward. As the midterms drew near, via a series of bills, Biden found a way to invest trillions of dollars in clean energy, the domestic semiconductor industry, and new infrastructure. The book includes insider reports of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and the White House's response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine"-- Provided by publisher.