America and Americans, and selected nonfiction

Places of the heart. Always something to do in Salinas -- The golden handcuff -- A primer on the '30s -- Making of a New Yorker -- My war with the ospreys -- Conversation at Sag Harbor. Engaged artist. Dubious battle in California -- The harvest gypsies : squatters' camps -- Starvation under the orange trees -- From Writers take sides -- I am a revolutionary -- Duel without pistols -- The trial of Arthur Miller -- Atque vale -- Dear Adlai -- G.O.P. delegates have bigger, better badges -- L'envoi. Occasional pieces. Then my arm glassed up -- On fishing -- Circus -- Random thoughts on random dogs -- --like captured fireflies -- The Joan in all of us -- A Model T named "it". On writing. The play-novelette -- My short novels -- Rationale -- Critics-from a writer's viewpoint -- Some random and randy thoughts on books -- Nobel prize acceptance speech. Friends. From About Ed Ricketts -- Ernie Pyle -- Tom Collins -- Robert Capa --

Adlai Stevenson

Henry Fonda

Woody Guthrie. Journalist abroad. Soul and guts of France

One American in Paris (fourth piece)

One American in Paris (thirteenth piece)

Positano

Florence : the explosion of the chariot

I go back to Ireland

The ghost of Anthony Daly. War Correspondent. Troopship

Waiting

Stories of the Blitz

Lilli Marlene

Bob Hope

Vietnam War : no front, no rear

Action in the Delta

Terrorism

Puff, the magic dragon

An open letter to poet Yevtushenko. America and Americans. Foreword

E pluribus unum

Paradox and dream

Government of the people

Created equal

Genus Americanus

The pursuit of happiness

Americans and the land

Americans and the world

Americans and the future

Afterword.