This week, American hero James Comey published his much-anticipated memoir, A Higher Loyalty, a book that, as far as I can tell, is about the relative height of loyalties. I have not read the book, because Splinter didn’t request a review copy. Nor have I read much coverage of its contents, because someone else at Splinter is covering that.
But I have perused the index. And, as they say, an index is the soul of a book. (At the very least, it’s a list of useful words and phrases to help locate the contents of a book.) Here are some excerpts from the index of A Higher Loyalty that will give you a better understanding of what Comey’s new book is all about:
Clinton, Bill
- tardiness of, 77
Comey, Patrice (wife)
- on torture, 107
credibility, reservoir of, 54, 71, 131, 179-80, 196
The Departed, 122
Diversity Agent Recruiting event, for FBI, 261-62
Dylan, Bob, 68
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 38-39
emotional intelligence, of leaders, 240
ethics
- of leaders, 130, 243, 271, 277
Fast and Furious, 127
The Godfather, Part II, 15
lying
- acceptance of, 277
- about basketball, 52
milk accident, in grocery store, 36-37
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1, 13-14
Obama, Barack,
- confidence of, 123, 151, 155-56
- humility of, 155-56
- inauguration crowd size of, 228-29
- listening by, 147-48, 213
- sense of humor of, 123-24
peer pressure, 38-39
power
- balancing of, 277
- of bullies, 37
Seacrest, Ryan, 185
The Sixth Sense, 201, 209
Thatcher, Margaret, 158
trust
- in FBI, 157, 194-95, 270