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PREFACE: A Portrait of Frank Mankiewicz
FOREWORD: “If Your Last Name Is Mankiewicz” by Ben Mankiewicz
FOREWORD: “Somebody’s Going to Offer You Something” by Josh Mankiewicz
INTRODUCTION: Frank’s “Rosebud” by Joel L. Swerdlow, Ph.D.
1. In Which I Make a Birthday Visit to Robert F. Kennedy’s Grave, Compare Myself to Someone Named Fred Snodgrass, and Mention That Speaking Spanish Led Me to Robert F. Kennedy
2. In Which I Grow Up as a Mankiewicz in Hollywood, Return to Family Dinners—an Algonquin Round Table West, with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Harpo Marx—and Drive into the Hills with My High School Dates
3. In Which I Watch Orson Welles Rehearse Live Radio Broadcasts and Develop a Love for Radio That Later Shapes Much of Today’s NPR
4. In Which “in Three Months and for a Few Thousand Dollars” Herman Mankiewicz Creates Citizen Kane and We Learn the Secret of “Rosebud”
5. In Which I Dismiss My Oral History Interviews, Play with “Retronym”—a Word I Invented—and Resent an Attack on My Memory
6. In Which I Return to My Childhood, Discuss Mrs. Moore, My Seventh-Grade English Teacher, Recite Poetry by Memory, Remember Late-Night Arguments About Zionism, and Explain “Unrequited Hatred”
7. In Which I Discuss the Death of My Father and His Obituary Triggers a Search for Why He Was Hated by the Nazi Leader Joseph Goebbels
8. In Which Pearl Harbor Knocks Me Out of America First, James Joyce Enters My Life, as a World War II Infantryman I Learn Spanish, a Mess Sergeant Quotes Gilbert and Sullivan While Serving Broken Ping-Pong Balls, During the Battle of the Bulge I Receive Dry Socks from General Eisenhower, I Fall in Love with a Red Cross Volunteer, and Begin to Worry America Might Have Jumped the Shark
9. In Which I Call Death “the Lady in the Marketplace,” See Obituaries as Literature, Explain What Is Remembered Versus What Is Important, Continue to Quote James Joyce, and Seem to Be Writing My Own Obituary
10. In Which an Electoral Victory Makes Me a Local Political Boss, I Become a Hollywood Lawyer, and I Work for Indians in Pre-casino Days
11. In Which I Help Form the Peace Corps, Am Radicalized by What I See in Latin America, Train Volunteers to Be Community Organizers, Become a Chum of Donald Rumsfeld’s, Confront LBJ in the Oval Office, and Receive a Phone Call from Someone Claiming to Be Robert F. Kennedy
12. In Which I Am Certified by Robert F. Kennedy, I Assure Him That Debating Ronald Reagan Will Be “Easy,” We Visit the JFK Gravesite in Arlington, I Discuss My Favorite RFK Speech, and RFK Runs for President, Making Remarks That Still Haunt, Inspire, and Challenge Us
13. In Which I Address the Democratic National Convention While Police “Riot,” I Receive Advice from a Supreme Court Justice, a Dead Puppy Is Blamed for Watergate, George McGovern Winning in 1976 Seems Reasonable, and I Say Kind (Personal) Things About Ronald Reagan
14. In Which the Death of Daily Print Newspapers Makes Me Grumpy and I Bemoan the Loss of “Above the Fold,” “Jump,” and “Op-Ed”
15. In Which I Carry Messages and Cigars Between Henry Kissinger and Fidel Castro, Clarify Baseball’s New Designated Hitter Rule to Cuban Officials, and Discuss Freedom, JFK, and the “Splendid Marxist Message of Jaws” with Castro
16. In Which I Agree with Hunter S. Thompson About “Truth,” Critique American Journalism, and Initiate America’s Most Popular Radio News Program
17. In Which I Offer Public Relations Advice (“Tell the Truth, Tell It All, Tell It Now”), Explain Why Rich People Fighting over Money Make the Best Clients, and Show That “Commode” Means Different Things in Different Parts of the United States
18. In Which the Various Strands Seem to Come Together and My Story Ends—at Least for Now
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Also by Frank Mankiewicz and Joel L. Swerdlow, Ph.D.
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