Contents

      Author’s Note

Part One

Listening to the Fields

1.   In the Village

2.   Suburbophobia

3.   Gettysburg

4.   Natchez

5.   Truth or Consequences

6.   Flight

7.   The View from a Small Mountain

Part Two

The Hollowed City

1.   The Pumpkins of Bergen Street

2.   The Market

3.   Youngstown

4.   The Pendulum

5.   Fresh Kills

Part Three

The Absent Hand

1.   The Corporation in the Woods

At the Sheraton

The Corporation in the Woods

King of Prussia

2.   Atopia

Spreawlian

Death

Disney

Art

3.   Whose Hand?

MAD Wonks in Toyland

Monroe’s Veto

Herbert Hoover’s Hand

Whose Hand?

4.   The Inverted Cradle

      Acknowledgments