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Index
Introduction
Part One: The Culture
The Ideal of Culture
From Parent to Parenthood
Death Takes No Holiday
Wit
Genius
Cowardice
Old Age and Other Laughs
What’s So Funny?
The Fall of the WASPs
The Virtue of Victims
Cool
The Sixties
University of Chicago Days
Part Two: Literary
Eric Auerbach
Kafka
Orwell
Proust
C. K. Scott Moncrieff
The Young T. S. Eliot
Philip Larkin
Willa Cather
George Kennan
Isaiah Berlin
Michael Oakeshott
John O’Hara
F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Most Successful Failure
Wolcott Gibbs
Evelyn Waugh
J. F. Powers
Edward Gibbon
Herodotus
Tacitus
Encyclopaedia Britannica—The Eleventh
Grammar
Clichés
Literary Rivals
Why Read Biography?
Part Three: Jewish
Sholem Aleichem
Jokes: A Genre of Thought
Jews on the Loose
Jewish Pugs
Harry Golden
Gershom Scholem
Dreaming of a JewishChristmas
Part Four: Masterpieces
The Brothers Ashkenzai
Civilization of the Renaissance
Montesquieu
Machiavelli
Gogol
Speak, Memory
Epictetus
H. W. Fowler
As a Driven Leaf
Joseph and His Brothers
Life and Fate
Memoirs of Hadrian
Charnwood’s Lincoln
Book of the Courtier
Ronald Syme
Quest for Corvo
The Old Bunch
Life of Johnson
Part Five: Hitting Eighty
Hitting Eighty
Original Publication Information for Essays in this Book
Index
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