Foreword by Bruce Springsteen -- Someplace like America: an introduction -- Snapshots from the road, 2009 -- pt. 1. America begins a thirty-year journey to nowhere: the 1980s : On becoming a hobo ; Necropolis ; New timer ; Home sweet tent ; True bottom -- pt. 2. The journey continues: the 1990s : Inspiration: the two-way highway ; Waiting for an explosion ; When Bruce met Jenny -- pt. 3. A nation grows hungrier: 2000 : Hunger in the homes ; The working poor: Maggie and others in Austin ; Mr. Murray on Maggie -- pt. 4. Updating people and places: the late 2000s : Reinduction ; Necropolis: after the apocalypse ; New timer: finding Mr. Heisenberg instead ; Home sweet home ; Maggie: "Am I doing the right thing?" ; Maggie on Mr. Murray -- pt. 5. America with the lid ripped off: the late 2000s : Search and rescue ; New Orleans jazz ; Scapegoats in the sun ; The dark experiment ; The big boys ; Anger in suburban New Jersey -- pt. 6. Rebuilding ourselves, then taking America on a journey to somewhere new : Zen in a crippled New Hampshire mill town ; A woman of the soil in Kansas City ; The phoenix? ; Looking forward, and back.
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