Contents

• I. Places of the Heart. Always Something to Do in Salinas. The Golden Handcuff. A Primer on the ’30s. Making of a New Yorker. My War with the Ospreys. Conversation at Sag Harbor
• II. Engaged Artist. Dubious Battle in California. The Harvest Gypsies: Squatters’ Camps. Starvation Under the Orange Trees. From Writers Take Sides. I Am a Revolutionary. Duel Without Pistols. The Trial of Arthur Miller. Atque Vale. Dear Adlai. G.O.P. Delegates Have Bigger, Better Badges. L’Envoi
• III. Occasional Pieces. Then My Arm Glassed Up. On Fishing. Circus. Random Thoughts on Random Dogs. … like captured fireflies. The Joan in All of Us. A Model T Named "It"
• IV. On Writing. The Play-Novelette. My Short Novels. Rationale. Critics-from a Writer’s Viewpoint. Some Random and Randy Thoughts on Books. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
• V. Friends. From About Ed Ricketts. Ernie Pyle. Tom Collins. Robert Capa. Adlai Stevenson. Henry Fonda. Woody Guthrie
• VI. Journalist Abroad. The Soul and Guts of France. One American in Paris (fourth piece). One American in Paris (thirteenth piece). Positano. Florence: The Explosion of the Chariot. I Go Back to Ireland. The Ghost of Anthony Daly
• VII. War Correspondent. Troopship. Waiting. Stories of the Blitz. Lilli Marlene. Bob Hope. Vietnam War: No Front, No Rear. Action in the Delta. Terrorism. Puff, the Magic Dragon. An Open Letter to Poet Yevtushenko
• VIII. America and Americans. Foreword. E Pluribus Unum. Paradox and Dream. Government of the People. Created Equal. Genus Americanus. The Pursuit of Happiness. Americans and the Land. Americans and the World. Americans and the Future. Afterword