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Tables of Contents for The Man With the Golden Arm
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editors' Preface
vii
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM
1
450
REMEMBRANCES
Letter to Joe Haas
345
4
Nelson Algren
Arm: A Memoir
349
14
John Clellon Holmes
Algren's Golden Pen
363
4
Mike Royko
Algren as I Knew Him
367
4
Kurt Vonnegut
Glasses
371
6
Studs Terkel
Nelson Algren's Politics
377
4
Stuart McCarrell
Photographing Nelson Algren
381
6
Layle Silbert
EARLY RECEPTION
Nelson Algren: The Iron Sanctuary
387
6
Maxwell David Geismar
Nelson Algren
393
6
George Bluestone
A Voyeur's View of the Wild Side: Nelson Algren and His Reviewers
399
12
Lawrence Lipton
NEW VIEWS
Algren's Question
411
6
Daniel Simon
The Quality of Laughter: Algren's Challenge to the Reader
417
6
William J. Savage Jr.
The Story of Decline and the October City
423
10
Carlo Rotella
The Heart of the Matter
433
4
Bettina Drew
The Value of Dissent
437
2
James R. Giles
Golden Arm's Song of Sweet Surrender
439
6
Lee Stringer
An Algren Photo Essay
445
6
Art Shay
Contributor Biographies
451
2
Acknowledgments and Credits
453
2
About the Author
455