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