Cover
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Kinship Guide
1. The Decisive Moment
2. Assignment: Escuminac
3. The Birthplace of the Fifties
4. A Potentially Very Rewarding Occupation
5. Seek, Strike and Destroy
6. The Ivied Idyll
7. Seeking Haven
8. Looking to Launch
9. Defiance
10. Assignment: Exploding Stars
11. The Portals Open
12. Assignment: Prelude To Camelot
13. Family Pictures
14. Assignment: Home Birth
15. Finding Perspective
16. Assignment: Afterimage
17. Up the Cool Potomac
18. Assignment: Teen Rockers
19. Freedom Is Never Free
20. Assignment: The Station Wagon
21. Fissures In the American Century
22. Assignment: Conversion
23. Lost and found
24. Their September Eleventh
25. Assignment: Finding Armando
26. Varieties of Departure
27. Wanderings and Wonderings
28. Assignment: Human Landscapes
29. Grandpa Is a Stone Wall
30. The Mind's Eye
Selected Sources
Index