Introduction
PART ONE: Sitting in the House . . .
1. The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
2. Princes and Powers
3. Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem
4. East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem
5. A Fly in Buttermilk
6. Nobody Knows My Name: a Letter from the South
7. Faulkner and Desegregation
8. In Search of a Majority
PART TWO: . . . With Everything on My Mind
9. Notes from a Hypothetical Novel
10. The Male Prison
11. The Northern Protestant
12. Alas, Poor Richard
i. Eight Men
ii. The Exile
iii. Alas, Poor Richard
13. The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy
