Contents

PART ONE / The Bubble

1: The Less Flattering Version

3: Creatures of Habit

4: Warren, What’s Wrong?

PART TWO / The Inner Scorecard

5: The Urge to Preach

6: The Bathtub Steeplechase

7: Armistice Day

8: A Thousand Ways

9: Inky Fingers

10: True Crime Stories

11: Pudgy She Was Not

12: Silent Sales

13: The Rules of the Racetrack

14: The Elephant

15: The Interview

17: Mount Everest

18: Miss Nebraska

19: Stage Fright

PART THREE / The Racetrack

20: Graham-Newman

21: The Side to Play

22: Hidden Splendor

23: The Omaha Club

24: The Locomotive

25: The Windmill War

26: Haystacks of Gold

29: What a Worsted Is

31: The Scaffold Sways the Future

32: Easy, Safe, Profitable, and Pleasant

33: The Unwinding

PART FOUR / Susie Sings

34: Candy Harry

36: Two Drowned Rats

38: Spaghetti Western

40: How Not to Run a Public Library

41: And Then What?

42: Blue Ribbon

PART FIVE / The King of Wall Street

45: Call the Tow Truck

47: White Nights

48: Thumb-Sucking, and Its Hollow-Cheeked Result

49: The Angry Gods

50: The Lottery

51: To Hell with the Bear

52: Chickenfeed

PART SIX / Claim Checks

55: The Last Kay Party

56: By the Rich, for the Rich

60: Frozen Coke

61: The Seventh Fire

62: Claim Checks

64: The Snowball

A Personal Note About Research

Photo Credits and Permissions

Acknowledgments

About the Author