Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Introduction 1
5. The Surveillance State
6. 1. Lessons from a Dark Time 9
7. 2. Students as Spies 19
8. 3. Hoover’s Secret Empire 28
9. 4. The Father of American Surveillance 36
10. 5. Prison Madness 51
11. Africa
12. 6. The Listening House 63
13. 7. All That Glitters 74
14. 8. A Showman in the Rainforest 86
15. 9. Heart of Darkness: Fiction or Reportage? 94
16. 10. On the Campaign Trail with Nelson Mandela 106
17. India
18. 11. India’s American Imports 119
19. 12. Palm Trees and Paradoxes 129
20. 13. The Brick Master 145
21. 14. The Impossible City 155
22. Europe
23. 15. Our Night with Its Stars Askew 165
24. 16. Shortstops in Siberia 178
25. 17. A Homage to Homage 184
26. 18. On Which Continent Was the Holocaust Born? 195
27. 19. Sunday School History 200
28. America
29. 20. Pilot on the Great River: Mark Twain’s Nonfiction 213
30. 21. A Literary Engineer 224
31. 22. A Nation of Guns 232
32. The Continent of Words
33. 23. You Never Know What’s Going to Happen Yesterday 245
34. 25. On the Road Again 254
35. 26. Books and Our Souls 268
36. Acknowledgments 271
37. Article Sources 273
38. Photo Credits 275