PART ONE The Bubble                              1  (32)
    1 The Less Flattering Version                  3  (2)
    2 Sun Valley                                   5  (18)
    3 Creatures of Habit                           23 (7)
    4 Warren, What's Wrong?                        30 (3)
  PART TWO The Inner Scorecard                     33 (124)
    5 The Urge to Preach                           35 (6)
    6 The Bathtub Steeplechase                     41 (8)
    7 Armistice Day                                49 (6)
    8 A Thousand Ways                              55 (7)
    9 Inky Fingers                                 62 (18)
    10 True Crime Stories                          80 (3)
    11 Pudgy She Was Not                           83 (5)
    12 Silent Sales                                88 (9)
    13 The Rules of the Racetrack                  97 (5)
    14 The Elephant                                102(11)
    15 The Interview                               113(5)
    16 Strike One                                  118(8)
    17 Mount Everest                               126(10)
    18 Miss Nebraska                               136(10)
    19 Stage Fright                                146(11)
  PART THREE The Racetrack                         157(136)
    20 Graham-Newman                               159(11)
    21 The Side to Play                            170(8)
    22 Hidden Splendor                             178(19)
    23 The Omaha Club                              197(6)
    24 The Locomotive                              203(10)
    25 The Windmill War                            213(4)
    26 Haystacks of Gold                           217(12)
    27 Folly                                       229(13)
    28 Dry Tinder                                  242(8)
    29 What a Worsted Is                           250(6)
    30 Jet Jack                                    256(8)
    31 The Scaffold Sways the Future               264(7)
    32 Easy, Safe, Profitable, and Pleasant        271(8)
    33 The Unwinding                               279(14)
  PART FOUR Susie Sings                            293(112)
    34 Candy Harry                                 295(11)
    35 The Sun                                     306(10)
    36 Two Drowned Rats                            316(7)
    37 Newshound                                   323(9)
    38 Spaghetti Western                           332(10)
    39 The Giant                                   342(14)
    40 How Not to Run a Public Library             356(18)
    41 And Then What?                              374(16)
    42 Blue Ribbon                                 390(15)
  PART FIVE The King of Wall Street                405(164)
    43 Pharaoh                                     407(11)
    44 Rose                                        418(11)
    45 Call the Tow Truck                          429(7)
    46 Rubicon                                     436(22)
    47 White Nights                                458(15)
    48 Thumb-Sucking, and Its Hollow-Cheeked       473(32)
    Result
    49 The Angry Gods                              505(16)
    50 The Lottery                                 521(19)
    51 To Hell with the Bear                       540(14)
    52 Chickenfeed                                 554(15)
  PART SIX Claim Checks                            569(140)
    53 The Genie                                   571(2)
    54 Semicolon                                   573(9)
    55 The Last Kay Party                          582(7)
    56 By the Rich, for the Rich                   589(12)
    57 Oracle                                      601(14)
    58 Buffetted                                   615(9)
    59 Winter                                      624(5)
    60 Frozen Coke                                 629(10)
    61 The Seventh Fire                            639(15)
    62 Claim Checks                                654(17)
    63 The Crisis                                  671(31)
    64 The Snowball                                702(7)
Notes                                              709(78)
A Personal Note About Research                     787(2)
Photo Credits and Permissions                      789(2)
Acknowledgments                                    791(4)
Index                                              795