Piecework

CONTENTS

Acclaim for Pete Hamill’s Piecework

Books by Pete Hamill

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: THE CITIES OF NEW YORK

The Lost City

The Secret City

On the Street/I

God Is in the Details

On the Street / 2

Bridge of Dreams

Spaldeen Summers

City of the Damned

PART II: THE LAWLESS DECADES

Notes from Underground

White Line Fever

The Last Mob Guy

On the Run

Crack and the Box

Facing Up to Drugs

PART III: MEXICO

City of Palaces

City of Calamity

Under Lowry’s Volcano

In Zapata Country

El Nobel

In Puerto Vallarta

The Tortilla Curtain

PART IV: OUT THERE

Vietnam, Vietnam

Ireland

Lebanon

Nicaragua

Prague

PART V: TALENT IN THE ROO

JFK

Sinatra

Gleason

Franz

Keith

Cus

Tyson

Madonna

Fosse

PART VI: POSITIO PAPERS

Black and White at Brown

The New Race Hustle

A Confederacy of Complainers

Letter to a Black Friend

The New Victorians

Endgame

PART VII ROLLING THE DICE

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