Eisenhower Babies

PREFACE

In the Shadow of Black Mountain Hoot Gibson, Red Man Tobacco, and My Father Bedtime Prayers, Seventeen Little Bears, and My Mother The Valley of the Poor Fork of the Cumberland A Hoosier Interlude The Houses That Built Me Sixteen Tons-and Then Some Dad Goes to War Rodney The Alligator Next Door I Borrow a Pony Purple-Ink Journalism, Supreme Court Rulings, and Other School Happenings Mickey Mouse, King Kong, and Other Thirty-Five-Cent Celluloid Escapades The Church That Bore My Family Name Space Ghost Goes Trick-or-Treating Nights before Christmas, Shepherd Mishaps, and a Missing Johnny Seven Thrilling Trips and Backseat Nausea Brought to You by Kellogg's-and a Cable Antenna atop Black Mountain Roy Rogers, a Battered Broom, and Me The Supermarket That Swallowed a Baseball Field The Architect, the Engineer, and the Mumps Hanna-Barbera, Saturday Mornings, and a Boston Mother Who Ruined Everything The Case of the Relentless Reader The World Intrudes Dear Comic Book Editor The Homesick Trumpeter Blues Coal Mine, Moonshine, or Move It On down the Line

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