Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Note to the Reader xi
Kinship Guide xii
1 The Decisive Moment 1
2 Assignment: Escuminac 4
3 The Birthplace of the Fifties 8
4 A Potentially Very Rewarding Occupation 15
5 Seek, Strike, Destroy 20
6 The Ivied Idyll 26
7 Seeking Haven 34
8 Looking to Launch 42
9 Defiance 48
10 Assignment: Exploding Stars 58
11 The Portals Open 62
12 Assignment: Prelude to Camelot 72
13 Family Pictures 75
14 Assignment: Home Birth 82
15 Finding Perspective 84
16 Assignment: Afterimage 97
17 Up the Cool Potomac 99
18 Assignment: Teen Rockers 106
19 Freedom Is Never Free 109
20 Assignment: The Station Wagon 121
21 Fissures in the American Century 125
22 Assignment: Conversion 136
23 Lost and Found 138
24 Their September Eleventh 142
25 Assignment: Finding Armando 148
26 Varieties of Departure 151
27 Wanderings and Wonderings 156
28 Assignment: Human Landscapes 166
29 Grandpa Is a Stone Wall 171
30 The Minds Eye 179
Selected Sources 185
Index 191
