Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Compassion, Cussedness, and Class -- Prologue -- 1. Push, Pluck, Prominence, and Merit -- 2. Among the Favored Few -- 3. As If I Had Thrown a Bomb into the Room -- 4. The Count -- 5. Petunia Ticklebritches -- 6. Everything Was Precise -- 7. We Went, We Saw, We Were Stunned -- 8. Stupid, Vacant, and Void of Hope -- 9. As the Moonlight Turned Barn Roofs to Silver -- 10. Tell Claude Ferebee to Keep His Shirt On -- 11. Madeline, My Concerto -- 12. Th e Skipper -- 13. Some Stuff -- 14. Every Bone in the Body -- 15. A Matter for Grave Concern -- 16. One of the Coldest Winters We Ever Had -- 17. As Good as I Could -- 18. You Were Grand as Ever -- 19. A Bad Bitter Pill -- 20. A Citizen Concerned with International Affairs -- 21. Woman Power -- 22. I Should Not Be Here but I Had to Come -- Epilogue: Going Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.