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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue (1)
Prologue (2)
PART ONE
Chapter One The Newman Roots A Friend Named Lenny and An Eye Problem
Chapter Two The World Isn’t Fair The Teen Years and Some Early Songwriting
Chapter Three “They Tell Me It’s Summer” “Golden Gridiron Boy” and Metric Music
Chapter Four A Creative Awakening Roswitha and A New Publisher
Chapter Five Lenny, Mo, and Warner Bros. Records
PART TWO
Chapter Six A Classic Debut Album “Love Story” and “Davy the Fat Boy”
Chapter Seven 12 Songs Harry Nilsson and The Troubadour
Chapter Eight The Bitter End Bob Dylan and A Novel Movie Idea
Chapter Nine Another Classic Album: Sail Away
Chapter Ten Good Old Boys and The N-word
Chapter Eleven Ragtime Saturday Night Live and Mounting Pressure
PART THREE
Chapter Twelve “Short People” and Some Bruised Feelings
Chapter Thirteen A Bad Joke and Rough Times
Chapter Fourteen Films and the Stage Ragtime and Faust
Chapter Fifteen Trouble in Paradise: Another Epic Album and The Marriage Ends
Chapter Sixteen The Natural La Película Loca and Peter Asher
PART FOUR
Chapter Seventeen Land of Dreams
Chapter Eighteen Parenthood Avalon and A Backyard Wedding
Chapter Nineteen Faust The Album and The Stage
Chapter Twenty Toy Story “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and John Lasseter
Chapter Twenty-One More Movies “When She Loved Me” and All Those Oscar Nominations
Chapter Twenty-Two Bad Love and Finally, an Oscar
PART FIVE
Chapter Twenty-Three Nonesuch Records Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Part One Katrina
Chapter Twenty-Four “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country” President George W. Bush and The New York Times editorial pages
Chapter Twenty-Five Harps and Angels A Song for President Obama and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Part Two
Chapter Twenty-Six Dark Matter The Streak Continues
PART SIX
Chapter Twenty-Seven The Hollywood Bowl An Historic Night
Chapter Twenty-Eight The Family
Chapter Twenty-Nine Toy Story 4 Marriage Story and The Pandemic
Chapter Thirty Afternoon Visits With Lenny and the Hope for More Music
Photos
Acknowledgments
Discover More
Also by Robert Hilburn
More advance praise for "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"
Appendix
Additional Notes
Bibliography
Lyrics Permissions
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