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Tables of Contents for The Shortstop's Son
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
reflections
3
66
A Murder Story
3
3
Christmas in NYC
6
5
In Paris
11
3
Click Song: Some Blues for Dr. King
14
3
Forgiving Elvis
17
2
Assassination Thing
19
4
Blood Requites
23
3
God and Man in the Land of Nod
26
3
Waiting for the End of the World
29
4
Why Not Revenge?
33
5
World Gone Wrong
38
3
Remembering Rebecca
41
3
White-Haired Bum
44
4
The Suicide's Life
48
3
The Cult of the Good-Looking Corpse
51
2
McNamara
53
3
Abraham Lincoln's Cool Fire
56
3
He Never Had It Made
59
10
rants
69
54
What We Signed Up For
69
4
The Guerrillas in Our Midst
73
3
A Pornography of Guns
76
11
Limbaugh Nation
87
3
TV: The Real World
90
3
An End to Prohibition
93
3
Big Men and Bell Curves
96
4
Having MTV
100
5
What Were the Police Doing in the Park?
105
3
The Yankee Woman
108
4
Toward a Tyranny of the Dull Normal
112
6
A Serious Lack of Seriousness
118
5
reports
123
Halloween
123
3
Hating the Dodgers
126
3
Spook Story
129
4
The Bulletproof Myth of Bonnie and Clyde
133
3
New Orleans
136
3
Approximately Huddie Ledbetter
139
7
The Untidy Grave of Blind Lemon Jefferson
146
3
Elvis Lives
149
17
CeDell Davis
166
7
Mr. Petty's Case
173
5
Always Patsy Cline
178
4
Dylan's Children (and Everybody's)
182
6
The Shortstop's Son
188