The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism Book

	Preface	13
	Making Facts Dance	17
	from The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild	23
	from The Life of Samuel Johnson	29
	Watercress Girl	34
	The Great Tasmania's Cargo	38
	from Specimen Days	46
	from If Christ Came to Chicago	49
	When Man Falls, a Crown Gathers	58
	An Experiment in Misery	63
	The Death of Rodriguez	71
	Can't Get Their Minds Ashore	76
	Pillelu, Pillelu!	80
	from The People of the Abyss	83
	Drift	93
	from Ninety Times Guilty	97
	Juke Joint	104
	from Hiroshima	111
	The Day of the Fight	115
	from "Portrait of Hemingway"	129
	Two Generals	139
	The Silent Season of a Hero	143
	from In Cold Blood	161
	from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	169
	from Alive	183
	from House	199
	from Brothers	204
	So ... We Meet at Last, Mr. Bond	212
	Shadow of a Nation	218
	from What It Takes	236
	The Spike	245
	from "The Bronx Slave Market"	252
	from The Earl of Louisiana	258
	The Fight to Live	271
	from The Armies of the Night	290
	from "The Scum Also Rises"	302
	The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones	316
	from Coyotes	331
	from "The Snap Revolution"	336
	Tiananmen Square	347
	from Among the Thugs	354
	from Whoredom in Kimmage	367
	from "Harlem on My Mind"	384
	from "Snake Handling and Redemption"	391
	The Pig	407
	Japanese Earthquake	411
	from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men	417
	The Third Winter	422
	Marrakech	433
	Lady Olga	439
	from Black Lamb and Grey Falcon	452
	from Once There Was a War	458
	Lethal Lightning	461
	It's an Honor	466
	The Girl of the Year	469
	Los Angeles Notebook	480
	from The Pine Barrens	485
	from Dispatches	494
	from Another Day of Life	507
	from Homicide	522
	from Boys in Zinc	536
	Holiday Pageant: The Importance of Being Bluebell	549
	Permissions	553
	Index	557