Table of Contents
Contents
A Note on Names
Players
Prologue: In Search of History
1. Home, Sweet Home
2. On the Little Tennessee River
3. Warrior Roots
4. The Rise of Paul Cantrell
5. The Best Fights of the Season
6. Civics at McMinn High
7. "Politicos in McMinn Split over Vote Robots"
8. The King of Tennessee
9. "For the Duration of the National Emergency"
10. Everything I Needed to Know About Geopolitics, I Learned from Frank Capra
11. George the Ripper
12. "We Were Like Young Tigers"
13. "A Monstrous, Shocking, and Revolting State of Affairs"
14. "High, Dry, and Bare Assed"
15. "Six Indicted for Vote Fraud"
16. "Come to the Rescue of a Helpless People"
17. "Say a Prayer for Your Pal on Guadalcanal"
18. United States v. Lattimore et al
19. "No Atheists on Tarawa"
20. United States v. William Rucker
21. From Athens to Normandy
22. "I Don't Know Which Way Is Up"
23. "Killed in the Service of his Country in Athens, Tennessee"
24. "The American Way of Life"
25. The Best Year of Their Lives
26. In the Basement of the Robert E. Lee Hotel
27. "A Thorn in the Flesh"
28. The Ballad of Otto Kennedy
29. Your Vote Will Be Counted as Cast
30. "Do You Think They're Going to Let You Win This Election?"
31. The Fourth of July
32. "The Hearts and Votes of McMinn County"
33. Election Day, 1946
34. The Battle of the Garage
35. Democracy, Athens Style
36. The Guns of August
37. The Night Watch
38. "Groping Back to Normalcy"
39. Fort Athens
40. Glorious Victory
41. Unknown Subjects
42. "Let Us Live Together and Love One Another"
Notes
Index