Contents

• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

• INTRODUCTION
• PROLOGUE:  HIRED HAND
• PART ONE  OBERLIN
  • 1  The End of an Erea
  • 2  The Way It Maybe Was
  • 3  Fallen Away
  • 4  The Verb "To Soldier"
• PART TWO  THE YALE MAN
  • 5  The Yale Man
  • 6  A Fellow Has to Do Something
  • 7  A Blow on the Head
  • 8  Anyone over Thirty
• PART THREE  CHICAGO (1)
  • 9  7:00 A.M.
  • 10  Of Cawse It's Impawtant
  • 11  Mert
  • 12  The Blue Sky
  • 13  The End of Everything
  • 14  The Unkindest Cut
  • 15  The Red Room
  • 16  Cease-Fire
• PART FOUR  THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
  • 17  Like a President Should
  • 18  The Bad Man Trick
  • 19  Something for Poor Bob
• PART FIVE  ONWARD AS TO WAR
  • 20  Onward as to War
  • 21  A War Plant
  • 22  Unhappy Warrior
  • 23  The Good News of Damnation
  • 24  The Guilty Flee Where None Pursue
  • 25  One World or None
  • 26  "We're Only Scientists"
• PART SIX  CHICAGO (2)
  • 27  The Great Books Industry
  • 28  Ad Man
  • 29  "Eat, Shirley"
  • 30  Disturbing the War
  • 31  The Cannon
  • 32  Brooks Brothers Bolshevik
  • 33  Showdown
  • 34  Denouement
  • 35  Denouement (2): Maude
• PART SEVEN  A CALL FOR COMMUNITY
  • 36  A Call for Community
  • 37  A Perennial Adolescent
• PART EIGHT  THE TEMPER OF THE COUNTRY
  • 38  A Cool Half-Billion
  • 39  "You and Your Great Big Geraniums"
  • 40  The Eye of the Storm
  • 41  All over Mud
  • 42  Is Anybody Listening? (1)
• PART NINE  THE WESTERN SLOPE
  • 43  Basic Issues
  • 44  El Parthenon
  • 45  The Only Saloon in Town
  • 46  Is Anybody Listening? (2)
  • 47  The Refounding Father
  • 48  The Sinking Ship
  • 49  A Shabby Pact
  • 50  As on a Darkling Plain
• EPILOGUE

• Notes
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• A NOTE ON THE TEXT