Nineteen The Offer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Author’s note: the scab ix
4. Prologue: The Tonight Show 1
5. One The Corn 11
6. Two Dirty Little Bastards 20
7. Three Pizzui 26
8. Four Elysian Fields 37
9. Five From Memphis to Riceville 41
10. Six The Experiment 52
11. Seven “Did She Really?” 63
12. Eight “Here’s Johnny!” 71
13. Nine Back Home 81
14. Ten What Some of the Kids Said 89
15. Eleven Rotarians 93
16. Twelve “Eye of the Storm” 96
17. Thirteen The White House 110
18. Fourteen Trouble 118
19. Fifteen Blackboard Jungle 126
20. Sixteen Spooner 134
21. Seventeen A Blind Spot 145
22. Eighteen Class Reunion 153
23. Nineteen The Offer 161
24. Twenty Unbound 166
25. Twenty-one Oprah 173
26. Twenty-two The Greater Good 187
27. Twenty-three The Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Goes On 198
28. Afterword: The Case of Robert Coles and Others 205
29. Coda: Andy’s and the Ville 211
30. Acknowledgments 219
31. Notes 223
32. Index 253