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Tables of Contents for The Princeton Anthology of Writing
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
John McPhee
Beauty for Ashes
3
6
David K. Shipler
A View of Mountains
9
2
Jonathan Schell
The Boat
11
7
Haynes Johnson
Josephine Guezou
18
4
Jane Kramer
Twentieth-Century Odyssey
22
7
Robert Donovan
A Farewell to Hue
29
7
Don Oberdorfer
Looking for Trouble
36
5
Leslie Cockburn
The Forthright Estate: In Praise of the Newspaper Column
41
5
Karl E. Meyer
Code of Ethics
46
5
Roger Mudd
Father of His Country
51
8
Paul Taylor
Workplace Discrimination
59
7
Stuart S. Taylor Jr.
Harassment by Kids: Are More Lawsuits the Answer?
62
4
Driver's Education
66
6
Larry L. King
People and Character
72
3
Irving Dilliard
Saving The Nation
75
12
Victor Navasky
Faith, Sex, Mystery
87
7
Richard Gilman
My Own Vox Pop
94
5
Richard Stengel
Stardom? They'd Rather Pass
95
2
Space Invaders
97
2
The Country Is at Crisis Point
99
8
Charlotte Grimes
Memo to Conservatives: Family Ties Are the Strongest Values of All
104
3
All Sentient Beings
107
7
Barbara Crossette
When Worlds Collide
114
3
Ronald Steel
First Born, Fast Grown: The Manful Life of Nicholas, 10
117
6
Isabel Wilkerson
Massacre at Columbine High School
123
3
Nancy Gibbs
Gender in the Classroom
126
5
Deborah Tannen
Cop-Out on Class: Why Private Schools Are Today's Draft Deferments
131
6
Jonathan Alter
It's a Wonderful Legacy
133
1
The Era of Bad Feeling
134
3
Two of a Kind
137
6
Jim Hoagland
Truly a Nation...
139
1
A Little Homer at the Beach
140
3
Why I Can't Write Fiction
143
4
Lawrence Weschler
On Robert Lowell
147
4
Blair Clark
The Miss Dennis School of Writing
151
5
Alice Steinbach
Meeting Mahfouz
156
7
Milton Viorst
Critic's Notebook
163
3
Richard Eder
L' Atalante
166
4
Terrence Rafferty
Annie of Corsica
170
6
Jeremy Bernstein
Two Deaths---One Then, One Now: On Losing a Father, A Newspaperman
176
3
John Darnton
Heavy Lifting
179
14
Geoffrey Wolff
Lenin Peak
193
5
Christopher Wren
From So Simple a Beginning
198
6
Jonathan Weiner
Pioneer 10 Pushes Beyond Goals, Into the Unknown
204
5
John Noble Wilford
Get Set to Say Hi to the Neighbors
207
2
Left the Light On, But Nobody Came
209
7
Malcolm W. Browne
The Invisible Flying Cat
210
2
At Least the Monsters Survive
212
1
Beauty, as Scientists Behold It
213
3
Manual Labor
216
5
James Gleick
Maintenance Not Included
218
3
At Last, Shout of ``Eureka!'' in Age-Old Math Mystery
221
4
Gina Kolata
Scientist Reports First Cloning Ever of Adult Mammal
223
2
What If We Succeed?
225
9
Walter Sullivan
Deus Conservat Omnia
234
8
Harrison E. Salisbury
Introduction to Morgan, American Financier
242
7
Jean Strouse
Down Twenty-Three Steps
249
3
Robert K. Massie
The Forest Coup
252
7
David Remnick
Pictures from the Rubble Patch
259
5
Jonathan Sanders
A Corner of Russia
264
4
Serge Schmemann
Goodbye to Rafah
268
4
Gloria Emerson
Mock Democracy
272
9
William Greider
The Big Barbecue
281
8
Landon Y. Jones Jr.
The Rope Line
289
9
Samuel G. Freedman
Nixonland
298
8
Francine Du Plessix Gray
Consultants: The Men Who Came to Dinner
306
10
Walter Guzzardi
Class Act
316
5
Jeremy Treglown
The New American Heartland
321
4
John Herbers
The 1950s
325
5
Charles Kaiser
Jazz, Music Beyond Time and Nations
330
5
Nat Hentoff
Miracle Kid
335
16
Lucinda Franks
Travels of the Rock
351
18
John McPhee
Acknowledgments
369
4
Author Index
373