Candide the Tenth and Other Agitations : Prose and Poetry.
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Armonk :
M.E. Sharpe, Inc.,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Candide the Tenth; Chapter 1. My Background; Chapter 2. Tora Bora; Chapter 3. I Meet Joe Wilson in Niger; Chapter 4. I Go to the President's Press Conference; Chapter 5. Katrina; Chapter 6. Death; Chapter 7. I Meet Kurt Vonnegut; Chapter 8. I Meet Einstein; Chapter 9. Connie's Misadventures in Afghanistan, Israel, and Palestine; Chapter 10. I Meet the First Black President; Chapter 11. I Slip Into and Out of Iran; Chapter 12. I See What's Going On in China; Chapter 13. I See What's Going On in Russia.
- Chapter 14. I Get a Job in FinanceChapter 15. I Visit Walter Reed Memorial Hospital; Chapter 16. Genocide in the Congo; Chapter 17. The Miner Rescue in Chile; Chapter 18. Langley Air Force Base; Chapter 19. Murder in Tucson; Chapter 20. The Disaster in Japan; Chapter 21. Blacks Out of Work; Chapter 22. Migrant Farm Workers; Chapter 23. A Narrow Escape in Libya; Chapter 24. The Hundred-Year-Old Man; Chapter 25. Candide Is Sentenced to Death; Prose; God Is Guilty; Ruthless; An End to Fighting; The Voyage of the Titanic; The Hangman's Handbook; Everybody's Political ABCs.
- Five Variations on Jack and JillVariation One: In the Style of Isaac Bashevis Singer; Variation Two: In the Style of Franz Kafka; Variation Three: In the Style of Ernest Hemingway; Variation Four: In the Style of George Bernard Shaw; Variation Five: In the Style of Jane Austen; Eternal Bliss; I Divorce Myself; Grand Old Times; On Books; A Surprise for the Dictator; The Man of Many Masks; Poetry; The Day the World Came to an End; Letters to Emily Dickinson; Testimony of a War Criminal; The Good Soldier; Iraq-Free at Last; Spread It All Around; Give It to Them; Connecting Flights.
- Lessons from New OrleansQuote from an Unidentified Source in Washington; I'll Never See Him Again; You Lied to Us; My First Son; Selected Poems from Thou Shalt Not Kill Unless Otherwise Instructed, 2005; Heartbreak House; I Saw This; The Eyeball; The Wrong House; His Heart Was Heavy; The Life of a Snowflake; Intelligent Design; The Helpless Giant; Selected Poems from A Requiem for New Orleans, 2006; Where Are You, God?; A Dream Deferred; Selected Agitations from Challenge; Little Red Riding Hood; The Truman Show; JKG Versus the Angel.