From the Book - First edition.
Edmund Wilson : nineteenth-century man --
Dawn Powell: queen of the golden age --
The romance of Sinclair Lewis --
Twain on the grand tour --
A note on The city and the pillar and Thomas Mann --
Lindbergh : the eagle is grounded --
FDR : love on the Hudson --
Wiretapping the oval office --
Bedfellows make strange politics --
Honorable Albert A. Gore, Junior --
How we missed the Saturday dance --
In the lair of the octopus --
With extreme prejudice --
Time for a people's convention --
The union of the state --
Mickey Mouse, historian --
U.S. out of UN-UN out of U.S. --
Shredding the Bill of Rights --
Birds and bees and Clinton --
A letter to be delivered --
Japanese intentions in the second World War.