CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction, by Web Lithgow
Selected Comments and Reviews for Tom McCann’s Other Books
“Katharine Hepburn on Line One”
ORIGINS
My Father and Mother
Sister Margaret
When I Was a Charity Case
Rocco
Under the Boardwalk
Uncle Freddie
Drugstore Days
The Voice of the New York Yankees, the Voice of God
Most Likely to Succeed
UNITED FRUIT
​Starting to See the World
​An American Company
Alice Widener
Role Models
The Black Eagle of Harlem
A New Home, A New Boss
The Attack
Telling the Story
MIDPOINT
The White House Transcripts
The White House Goes to the “Big House”
The Hood Samaritan
Ben Spock
Public Relations
A BOSTON LIFE
Bill Russell
“You certainly made our job at the White House harder.”
Bogey, Bacall, and Me
Robert De Niro
Katharine Hepburn
“What If?”
Copyright Details and Acknowledgments