Eisenhower Babies: Growing Up on Moonshots, Comic Books, and Black-And-White TV

PREFACE In the Shadow of Black MountainHoot Gibson, Red Man Tobacco, and My FatherBedtime Prayers, Seventeen Little Bears, and My MotherThe Valley of the Poor Fork of the CumberlandA Hoosier InterludeThe Houses That Built MeSixteen Tons-and Then SomeDad Goes to WarRodneyThe Alligator Next DoorI Borrow a PonyPurple-Ink Journalism, Supreme Court Rulings, and Other School HappeningsMickey Mouse, King Kong, and Other Thirty-Five-Cent Celluloid EscapadesThe Church That Bore My Family NameSpace Ghost Goes Trick-or-TreatingNights before Christmas, Shepherd Mishaps, and a Missing Johnny SevenThrilling Trips and Backseat NauseaBrought to You by Kellogg's-and a Cable Antenna atop Black MountainRoy Rogers, a Battered Broom, and MeThe Supermarket That Swallowed a Baseball FieldThe Architect, the Engineer, and the MumpsHanna-Barbera, Saturday Mornings, and a Boston Mother Who Ruined EverythingThe Case of the Relentless ReaderThe World IntrudesDear Comic Book EditorThe Homesick Trumpeter BluesCoal Mine, Moonshine, or Move It On down the Line ACKNOWLEDGMENTSBIBLIOGRAPHYABOUT THE AUTHOR