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Tables of Contents for The Uneasy Chair
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Author's Note
ix
 
Quote
xiii
 
I THE AMNIOTIC HOME
``These People Are Not My People''
1
2
Fossil Remnants of a Frontier Boyhood
3
9
Harvard
12
7
A Spiritual War
19
5
Harvard '20-as of '18
24
8
``Between Pauperism and Drugged Dreams''
32
14
II NORTHWESTERN
Students and Epworth Leaguers
46
11
In Print
57
3
The Mercury Mood
60
7
Stirring Up the Animals
67
7
``One Story to the S.E.P.''
74
4
III MORE PRIVILEGED EARTH
Breaking In-and Down
78
12
``Functional Justification as Part of an Institution''
90
10
New England: There She Stands
100
6
Bernar do Furioso
106
10
On Bread Loaf Mountain
116
18
Lincoln, Mass.
134
4
Seminar on Pareto
138
6
The Literary and the Left
144
5
Pen Pal
149
4
We Accept with Pleasure
153
7
Editorial Temptations
160
5
``Keep Your Self-Respect''
165
7
A Hazard of New Fortunes
172
6
IV THE MANHATTAN CAPTIVITY
On Moving to New York
178
6
Beside the Limpopo
184
5
``You're There to Lick 'Em for Us''
189
4
``An Incumbrance for His Lively Spirit''
193
4
Cambridge Regained
197
5
An Incident on Bread Loaf Mountain
202
10
V ``PERIODIC ASSISTANCE FROM MR. JOHN AUGUST''
Mostly Waste Motion
212
7
Certain Satisfactions
219
5
America Revisited
224
3
Keeping Promises
227
6
War Effort
233
3
History as Synecdoche: The Year of Decision: 1846
236
10
VI BLOWS GIVEN AND TAKEN
``So Goes Another of My Fathers''
246
5
``Fools, Liars, and Mr. DeVoto.''
251
8
Strange Fruit
259
5
``The Job I'm Eyeing Is Lewis and Clark''
264
5
Historian by Serendipity
269
10
Dog to His Vomit
279
8
VII FULL CAREER
``The Best Thing I Ever Did in My Life''
287
11
A Function of Journalism
298
13
Crusader
311
11
The Lost World of Fiction
322
7
The Course of Empire
329
9
The Perils of Paul Pro
338
10
Collection of Clowns and Cowards
348
15
``May Six O'clock Never Find You Alone.''
363
12
Deathward from Childhood
375
10
Notes
385
62
Index
447