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Frontmatter
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Stephen G. Bloom
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Author’s note: the scab ix
- Prologue: The Tonight Show 1
- One The Corn 11
- Two Dirty Little Bastards 20
- Three Pizzui 26
- Four Elysian Fields 37
- Five From Memphis to Riceville 41
- Six The Experiment 52
- Seven “Did She Really?” 63
- Eight “Here’s Johnny!” 71
- Nine Back Home 81
- Ten What Some of the Kids Said 89
- Eleven Rotarians 93
- Twelve “Eye of the Storm” 96
- Thirteen The White House 110
- Fourteen Trouble 118
- Fifteen Blackboard Jungle 126
- Sixteen Spooner 134
- Seventeen A Blind Spot 145
- Eighteen Class Reunion 153
- Nineteen The Offer 161
- Twenty Unbound 166
- Twenty-one Oprah 173
- Twenty-two The Greater Good 187
- Twenty-three The Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Goes On 198
- Afterword: The Case of Robert Coles and Others 205
- Coda: Andy’s and the Ville 211
- Acknowledgments 219
- Notes 223
- Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Author’s note: the scab ix
- Prologue: The Tonight Show 1
- One The Corn 11
- Two Dirty Little Bastards 20
- Three Pizzui 26
- Four Elysian Fields 37
- Five From Memphis to Riceville 41
- Six The Experiment 52
- Seven “Did She Really?” 63
- Eight “Here’s Johnny!” 71
- Nine Back Home 81
- Ten What Some of the Kids Said 89
- Eleven Rotarians 93
- Twelve “Eye of the Storm” 96
- Thirteen The White House 110
- Fourteen Trouble 118
- Fifteen Blackboard Jungle 126
- Sixteen Spooner 134
- Seventeen A Blind Spot 145
- Eighteen Class Reunion 153
- Nineteen The Offer 161
- Twenty Unbound 166
- Twenty-one Oprah 173
- Twenty-two The Greater Good 187
- Twenty-three The Dogs Bark, but the Caravan Goes On 198
- Afterword: The Case of Robert Coles and Others 205
- Coda: Andy’s and the Ville 211
- Acknowledgments 219
- Notes 223
- Index 253
