Acknowledgments
Final exams
Ready for college
Christmas
Back to Saltillo
The posse
The end of innocence
From Rennie's arms
Following the rules
The South is complicated
The talent contest
"Last night"
Social clubs and other challenges
Precocious puberty
Some friends are reat
No mercy
Chapter: Is it really over?
To a normal life
First day at Stax - Studio sessions
How to succeed at Christmas without really crying
Alcohol, pills, and the dental assistant
Much ado about CC and Elvis
Dance of the seven deadly sins
And then came Hammerstein and Sondheim
Football
Sam & Dave
The buildup
And finally, the winner is ...
Desegregation: how Ii's done and how It's left undone
Try a little tenderness
Lexington
Freud
Ups and downs
The year of death and dying
Beginning of the end
And the winner isn't....
Into the fire
Out of the ashes
Epilogue
Bibliography.