[My Generation 01] • My Generation by Styron, William -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Foreword by Tom Brokaw Contents Editor’s Note Apprenticeship

Autobiographical The Prevalence of Wonders Moviegoer Christchurch William Blackburn Almost a Rhodes Scholar A Case of the Great Pox

The South

The Oldest America The James Children of a Brief Sunshine

Race and Slavery

This Quiet Dust A Southern Conscience Slave and Citizen Overcome Slavery's Pain, Disney's Gain Our Common History Acceptance In the Southern Camp A Voice from the South Nat Turner Revisited

Final Solutions

Auschwitz Hell Reconsidered Auschwitz and Hiroshima A Wheel of Evil Come Full Circle

Disorders of the Mind

Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died Prozac Days, Halcion Nights “Interior Pain”

Warfare and Military Life

MacArthur The Red Badge of Literature A Farewell to Arms Calley Arnheiter The Wreckage of an American War A Father's Prophecy

Prisoners

The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid Benjamin Reid: Aftermath

Aftermath of “Aftermath”

The Joint A Death in Canaan Death Row

Presidential

Havanas in Camelot Les Amis du Président François Mitterrand Family Values Clinton and the Puritans

Reports

Chicago: 1968 Down the Nile

Literary

Lie Down in Darkness “I'll Have to Ask Indianapolis—” Letter to an Editor The Paris Review The Long March We Weren't in It for the Money The Book on Lolita Fessing Up The MacDowell Medal

Antecedents

William Faulkner “O Lost!” Etc. An Elegy for F. Scott Fitzgerald A Second Flowering A Literary Forefather

Friends and Contemporaries

My Generation Robert Penn Warren Lillian's Bosom Irwin Shaw Jimmy in the House Celebrating Capote James Jones Transcontinental with Tex Peter Matthiessen Bennett Cerf Bob Loomis Philip Rahv Remembering Ralph C. Vann Woodward It Cannot Be Long My Neighbor Arthur Big Jim The Contumacious Mr. Roth

Crusades, Complaints, Gripes

If You Write for Television… Fie on Bliss The Habit Cigarette Ads and the Press Too Late for Conversion or Prayer

Bagatelles

The Big Love Candy

Amours

Virginia Durr for President My Daughters Our Model Marriage

In Closing

Walking with Aquinnah “In Vineyard Haven”

Acknowledgments William Styron's Nonfiction: A Checklist Notes Other Titles About the Author