CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART ONE: FLIGHT FROM THE EAST (1917--1955) -- 1 Newark Jew -- 2 All the Ir vings Did -- 3 Those Beautiful Chinese Nights -- 4 Too Good to Be True -- 5 Enfant Terrible -- 6 A Newer Criticism -- 7 Discovering America -- PART TWO: CELEBRITY NUT (1955--1971) -- 8 Eliezar Ben Leah -- 9 Heavy Runner -- 10 From Princeton to Athens -- 11 American Gothic -- 12 East Toward Home -- 13 True West -- 14 Innocence Reclaimed -- PART THREE: STARTING OVER (1971--) -- 15 Sacred and Profane -- 16 Till the Tree Die -- 17 Eleanor Mooseheart -- 18 Mutants New and Old -- 19 For Sam and Hattie -- 20 Moses in Aspen -- 21 The Sorcerer s Apprentice -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.