Foreword
Preface
1. Manners acquired as a child
2. Manners learned while an undergraduate
3. Manners picked up in graduate school
4. Manners followed by the Phage group
5. Manners passed on to an aspiring young scientist
6. Manners needed for important science
7. Manners practiced as an untenured professor
8. Manners deployed for academic zing
9. Manners noticed as a dispensable White HOuse adviser
10. Manners appropriate for a Nobel Prize
11. Manners demanded by academic ineptitude
12. Manners behind readable books
13. Manners required for academic civility
14. Manners for holding down two jobs
15. Manners maintained when reluctantly leaving Harvard
Epilogue
Cast of characters
Remembered lessons.