CHARLES P. PIERCE has been a writer-at-large for Esquire since 1997 and is a frequent contributor to American Prospect and Slate. His work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic, and the Chicago Tribune, among other publications, and he is a regular on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me and Only a Game.
Introduction: Dinosaurs with Saddles (August 2005) | p. 1 |
The American Way of Idiocy | |
The Prince of Cranks | p. 13 |
The War on Expertise | p. 27 |
Beyond Atlantis | p. 52 |
The Templars in Town | p. 60 |
Truth | |
Radio Nowhere | p. 95 |
God and Judge Jones | p. 128 |
Consequences | |
A Woman Dies on Beech Street | p. 165 |
How We Look at the Sea | p. 194 |
The Principles of Automatic Pilot | p. 219 |
Mr. Madison's Library | |
Torture in New Hampshire | p. 257 |
Mr. Madison's Library | p. 278 |
Acknowledgments | p. 287 |
Notes on Sources | p. 291 |
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