PART ONE: PUTTING THINGS TOGETHER
8. THINGS RUTH DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT GEORGE AT THE TIME
11. THE PERFUME OF AXLE GREASE, THE WHIFF OF HALITOSIS
12. GOOD-BYE TO ALL THAT (NEARLY)
13. THE BEST OF ROOMS, THE WORST OF ROOMS
14. 1956: THE CLOCKWORK OF HISTORY TICKS
15. AN UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION
19. THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS, EARLY SUMMER, 1962
20. THE GIRL WHO ATE HIS HEART BUMS A SMOKE
21. THINGS CLEM DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT FRANKIE AT THE TIME
23. A LATIN-AMERICAN INTERLUDE
24. SEEING THE FOREST FROM THE TREES
25. YOU LEARN NOTHING ABOUT SEX FROM BOOKS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE BY D. H. LAWRENCE
26. MAN IS NOT AN ISLAND; HE’S A PENINSULA
29. THE LIMITED OPPORTUNITIES FOR OBTAINING CONTRACEPTIVES IN NORTH NORFOLK IN 1962 . . .
PART TWO: BLOWING THINGS APART
30. WASHINGTON, D.C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1962: “THOSE SONS A BITCHES RUSSIANS!”
33. GEORGE DOES A BIT OF TIDYING UP
34. GOOD EVENING, MY FELLOW CITIZENS
35. THE LAMBS OF GOD ARE SHORN
38. STUMBLING TOWARD THE BRINK
39. THE SHIFTY WORD Standstill
42. JACK AND NIKITA TALK TURKEY
PART THREE: PICKING UP THE PIECES