Lessons from a dark time: and other essays

Introduction

Lessons from a dark time

Students as spies

Hoover's secret empire

The father of American surveillance

Prison madness

The listening house

All that glitters

A showman in the rainforest

Heart of Darkness : fiction or reportage?

On the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela

India's American imports

Palm trees and paradoxes

The brick master

The impossible city

Our night with its stars askew

Shortstops in Siberia

A homage to homage

On which continent was the Holocaust born?

Sunday school history

Pilot on the great river : Mark Twain's nonfiction

A literary engineer

A nation of guns

The continent of words

You never know what's going to happen yesterday

Practicing history without a license

On the road again

Books and our souls.

Introduction

The surveillance state. Lessons from a dark time ; Students as spies ; Hoover's secret empire ; The father of American surveillance ; Prison madness

Africa. The listening house ; All that glitters ; A showman in the rainforest ; Heart of Darkness : fiction or reportage? ; On the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela

India. India's American imports ; Palm trees and paradoxes ; The brick master ; The impossible city

Europe. Our night with its stars askew ; Shortstops in Siberia ; A homage to Homage ; On which continent was the Holocaust born? ; Sunday school history

America. Pilot on the great river : Mark Twain's nonfiction ; A literary engineer ; A nation of guns

The continent of words. You never know what's going to happen yesterday ; Practicing history without a license ; On the road again; Books and our souls.