Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Author’s Note vii
4. Prologue xiii
5. America: The Waltons And Giammatteis
6. From England to America 3
7. New England 9
8. From Southern Italy to America 15
9. The Choice 23
10. Valentine Giamatti
11. The New Haven They Entered 31
12. The Darkest Aura and Its Reach 43
13. Forming the Intellectual Life 51
14. The Yale He Entered 61
15. Fascism and Race at Yale 69
16. Family
17. Romance of the Heart and the Liberal Mind 79
18. Melding the Past into the Future 85
19. Angelo Bartlett Giamatti
20. Finding Home 95
21. Witness in War 103
22. Family Life in South Hadley 111
23. Maturity from Experience 119
24. The Duty of Citizenship: Mount Holyoke as Prism 127
25. Principles
26. The Connections Form 137
27. The Fateful Visit 145
28. The City 151
29. An Education 159
30. Yale 167
31. The Loss of Civic Duty 175
32. Understanding Yale 187
33. Learning Griswold and Brewster 197
34. Neither Griswold nor Brewster 205
35. The Purposeful Man 213
36. Refinement, Expansion, and Perspective 221
37. Fate 231
38. Fearless 239
39. Epilogue: Yale—In Epic Battle 253
40. Acknowledgments and Reflections 263
41. Notes 269
42. Works Cited 413
43. Index 433
44. About the Author 451