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Copyright © 1989 by Russell Baker
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First Diversion Books edition August 2014
ISBN: 978-1-62681-325-0

Also by Russell Baker

So This is Depravity
All Things Considered
An American in Washington
Growing Up
Looking Back
No Cause for Panic
Norton Book of Light Verse
Oour Next President
Poor Russell’s Almanac
The Rescue of Miss Yaskell and Other Pipe Dreams
Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor
Some Cause for Alarm
There’s a Country in my Cellar
The Upside Down Man

To Mimi

At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.
—SIEGFRIED SASSOON, “Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man”