From the Book - Regular Print - First American edition.
Translator's note / Richard Howard --
Preface to the 1970 edition --
Preface to the 1957 edition --
PART I: MYTHOLOGIES. In the ring --
The writer on vacation --
The "blue blood" cruise --
Criticism blind and dumb --
Saponids and detergents --
The poor and the proletariat --
Dominici, or, The Triumph of Literature --
Iconography of Abbé Pierre --
Bichon among the blacks --
The nautilus and the Bateau Ivre --
A few words from Monsieur Poujade --
Billy Graham at the Vel'D'Hiv' --
Two m yths of the new theater --
The tour de France as epic --
The man in the street on strike --
Literature according to Minou Drouet --
The Bourgeois art of song --
The great family of man --
The Lady of the Camellias --
Poujade and the intellectuals.