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Introduction Part 1 War: Like a river of steel it flowed, gray and ghostlike / Richard Harding Davis Chauffeurs of Madrid / Ernest Hemingway Peace-and the crisis begins / Dorothy Thompson Jock Evans was on duty that night / Robert J Casey Pearl Harbor / Eleanor Roosevelt God-damned infantry Death of Captain Waskow D-day: a pure miracle / Ernie Pyle Dispatches from the end of the war / Orson Welles There are no young guys here / Pete Hamill To root against your country / Art Hoppe Obituary for South Vietnam / Peter R Kann Hallelujah / William F Buckley Jr Word of the year: freedom / William Safire Death takes hold among the living / Pete Hamill We'll go forward from this moment / Leonard Pitts Jr Boots on the ground, hearts on their sleeves / David Brooks Village waiting for rape and murder / Nicholas D Kristof Farewell to Geronimo / Thomas L Friedman Part 2: Politics: What's the matter with Kansas? / William Allen White Good luck to the anti-Bolshevists / Theodore Roosevelt Gamalielese Scopes monkey trail / H L Mencken There is a ship / Heywood Broun Mad-hatter loyalty purge / Joseph and Stewart Alsop Welch defends one friend and finds he's made many / Mary McGrory Ninth life / Murray Kempton Day of endless fitness / Mary McGrory Touring Dixie with LBJ / James Reston Decisive political center / James Reston Are you against the handicapped? / William F Buckley Jr Nixon's resignation / Charles McDowell Being spied on had benefits of sorts / Jack Anderson Reagan shot: end of an era? / David S Broder Slats mistakes GOP for GOD / Mike Royko Sound of a lapdog / George F Will Supreme Court buzzword guide / Michael Kinsley When Clinton talks, people listen-and vice versa / Molly Ivins No guardrails / Daniel Henninger Pulp nonfiction / Maureen Dowd Eastern middle school / Thomas L Friedman In defense of the F-word / Charles Krauthammer Palin problem / Kathleen Parker Morning in America / Eugene Robinson National greatness agenda / David Brooks Part 3: Sports: Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer Four horsemen / Grantland Rice Louis knocks out Schmeling / Bob Considine Seabiscuit: the gamest thoroughbred / Grantland Rice Iron horse breaks / Shirley Povich Graziano-Zale fight / Jimmy Cannon Death of a racehorse / W C Heinz Miracle of Coogan's Bluff / Red Smith Fisk's home run in 12th beats Reds / Peter Gammons Reggie Jackson's three homers / Red Smith Muhammad Ali / Jack Newfield Slugger, right from the first tee / Jim Murray Webber College: best team you never saw / Mitch Albom Why is baseball so much better than football? / Thomas Boswell Who has won and who has lost? / Bob Greene For timeless player, it was time / Thomas Boswell Her blue heaven / Bill Plaschke

Part 4: Humor: Danger of lying in bed / Mark Twain First entries in the Devil's Dictionary / Ambrose Bierce Reform administration / Finley Peter Dunne Congress is funniest when it's serious / Will Rogers Tips on horses / Ring Lardner Apology / Westbrook Pegler Death pays a social call / Damon Runyon Vertical Negro plan / Harry Golden Political poll in 1776 / Art Buchwald Nixon goes to the mountain / Art Buchwald How to cure a hangover / Mike Royko Francs and beans / Russell Baker How to argue effectively / Dave Barry Spring before swine / Russell Baker How to keep the IRS from finding out you're lying / Dave Barry Pithy into the wind / Dave Barry Hellfire club / Hunter S Thompson You're never too young to aim high / Carl Hiaasen I ate breakfast and lived / Lewis Grizzard Pardon my French / Tony Kornheiser Why not the worst? / Gene Weingarten Part 5: Crime: Chicago gang war / Ernest Hemingway Murder in the worst degree / Damon Runyon Waiting for Lepke / Walter Winchell Marvin the torch / Jimmy Breslin Breslin to point 44 killer: give up now! / Jimmy Breslin Head in a box / Pete Dexter Woman burned while police had their Danish / Murray Kempton Etiquette at a crime scene / Carl Hiaasen Lucy's blue light / Steve Lopez Steak tips to die for New land, sad story / Mike Barnicle Bullet's impact / Mitch Albom Part 6: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties: Destiny of colored Americans / Fredrick Douglass To an anxious friend / William Allen White Fine lesson for the whole nation / Heywood Broun Rebellion in Connecticut / Dorothy Thompson There ought to be a law / Langston Hughes Free speech is worth the risk / I F Stone Wrong man / Murray Kempton Faubus and Little Rock: scars are for the young / Max Lerner He went all the way / Murray Kempton Flower for the graves / Eugene Patterson Marching to Montgomery / Jack Newfield Are the rioters racists? / William F Buckley Jr Power of one / Anna Quindlen Out of the closet and open to legal attack / Pete Dexter Strangling the NAACP / Carl T Rowan Coming out against cultural pollution / Stanley Crouch Living proof of immigration's marvelousness / Cynthia Tucker Path beyond grievance / William Raspberry Part 7: Local Voices: She bids farewell to New York / Margaret Fuller History of our late war / Fanny Fern Postscripts / O Henry Don Quixote and his last windmill / Ben Hecht About New York / Meyer Berger Ah, San Francisco / Herb Caen Picasso and the cultural rebirth of Chicago / Mike Royko Not-so-classic Christmas story about a not-so-silent day in Pershing Square / Jack Smith Lubbock: her teeth are stained, but her heart is pure / Molly Ivins True confessions / Steve Lopez Moneylender Jasper Speciale last of a different breed / John L Smith Sprig of verbena and the gifts of a great teacher / Kathleen Parker Part 8: Hard Times: Death of Frankie Jerome / Westbrook Pegler Migration workers take lots of abuse / Woody Guthrie To first and last things / Walter Lippmann Death in emergency room one It's an honor / Jimmy Breslin Two minutes to midnight: the very last hurrah / Pete Hamill On losing a friend / John Leonard If you're expecting one-liners / Jim Murray Are you John Lennon? / Jimmy Breslin Short story about the Vietnam War Memorial / Molly Ivins Fool's errand / Bob Herbert His delicious, mansard-roofed world / Peggy Noonan Open letter to America / Chris Rose

Part 9: Farewells:

Mary White / William Allen White

American Mussolini / Westbrook Pegler

Amelia Earhart / Walter Lippmann

FDR: a great man passes by / Damon Runyon

Babe Ruth: game called / Grantland Rice

Ernest Hemingway I knew / Jimmy Cannon

There was only one Casey / Wells Twombly

Daley embodied Chicago / Mike Royko

John Wayne's True Grit / Mike Royko

She said goodby with charm / Jimmy Breslin

King of cool / Michael Kelly

Reagan: an optimist's legacy / George F Will

Mother's love, clarified / George F Will

Part 10: Pursuit Of Happiness:

Advice from Poor Richard's Almanack / Benjamin Franklin

Yes, Virginia-there is a Santa Claus / Francis Pharcellus Church

It's what the home folks think of you that really counts / Will Rogers

Magnificent mammon / Damon Runyon

Myriad-minded us / Westbrook Pegler

Even to Judas / Heywood Broun

Kicks / Murray Kempton

When God created fathers

When God created mothers / Erma Bombeck

Memories of leaner times fed by image of hungry bum / Pete Dexter

Days of gilded rigatoni / Anna Quindlen

Jon Will's aptitudes / George F Will

Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young / Mary Schmich

Halloween of my dreams / Marjorie Williams

Man of the streets, in three suites / Steve Lopez

45 life lessons-and five to grow on / Regina Brett

To old times / Peggy Noonan

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