CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraphs

Prologue     Yo-Yo

PART ONE     GOOD FELLOWS

  1  Domestic Engagements

  2  A Coney Island of the Mind

  3  Fear of Filing

  4  A Cold War

  5  “I Don’t Love You Any More”

PART TWO     HAPPY VALLEY

  6  Words in a Box

  7  Naked

  8  Tea and Sympathy

PART THREE     LIVE FOREVER

  9  Caught Inside

10  18

11  22

PART FOUR     WHAT HAPPENED

12  The Realist

13  Bombs

14  Where Is World War II?

15  The Willies

PART FIVE     DIE TRYING

16  Hard to Swallow

17  Go Figure

18  The New World

19  Closing Time

20  When They Speak of the War

Epilogue     Cleaning House

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Also by Tracy Daugherty

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