Cast of Characters
Prologue
Sam
Sam Speaks
Sam’s Letter to Breslin
Sam Sleeps
Sam Writes
Becoming Jimmy Breslin
Breslin Becomes a Big Shot
More Than One I in Tribune
The New Journalism, & The Old Mob
The First Plane to Dallas
You! You! You! You!
The Bard of Queens Boulevard
Riots, Race & The One Percent
Bobby
We’ll Never Be Young Again
Post Haste
Bumpy’s Farewell
Lindsay in Harlem
Feat of Clay
How to Write a Profile
Running Against the Machine
Crimes of a Century
The Night John Lennon Died
Dies the Victim Dies the City
Lufthansa Heist
Dies Rosemary Dies the Family
Fear City
Simply Stunning
Boulevard of Broken Schemes
A Prize Named for a Publisher
Truth, Justice & The Comics
Bring Back the Death Penalty
“One Great Act of Bigotry”
Love, Betrayal & Loss
You Never Leave Whitespace
He Finds Selma in Zuccotti Park
Big Man Dies
Coda
A Timeline of Significant Events
Illustrations Insert
Acknowledgments
Index