American General Law, Anecdotes 

Biographical essays on public figures whom Louis Nizer knew. 

Content:
Part 1. At the gate. The author's jacket -- pt. 2. Looking in the window. Exploring inner continents -- An experiment on an island -- The ticket -- The four little miracles -- Tell me no fortunes -- Economics in a thimble -- Splitting the atoms or uniting the Adams -- The right to privacy -- Word cartooning -- The second knock on the door -- Gin rummy, the great American illusion -- Illegitimate parents -- The art of the jury trial -- An editorial lost in a news item -- Paternity and fraternity -- pt. 3. Looking at the neighbors. Irving Berlin -- Eddie Rickenbacker -- Paul Muni -- William O'Dwyer -- Walter Winchell -- Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller -- John Golden -- Joe Louis (and other champions) -- George Jessel -- Albert D. Lasker -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Frank Case -- John Fulton Sheen -- Fiorello H. LaGuardia -- Five women -- Maurice Rose -- Alben Barkley -- Ted Lewis -- Harley M. Kilgore -- Sidney Hillman -- Jack Benny -- Robert E. Sherwood -- Belle Baker -- Spyros P. Skouras -- William O. Douglas -- Sholem Asch -- Kurt Weill -- Stephen S. Wise -- Maurice Maeterlinck -- Modern Minute Men -- Jonah Goldstein -- Moss Hart -- Frederick W. Foerster -- Billy Rose -- Irving Lehman -- Ben Hecht -- William B. Ziff -- Molly Picon -- Kenneth C. Royall -- Gael Sullivan -- Helen Hayes -- Sol Bloom -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Albert Einstein -- pt. 4. Looking out the window. We have no alternative -- The Nuremberg verdict, an appraisal -- Emil gets away with murder -- pt. 5. Closing the door. The fire. 

Shelved under general to remain with other Nizer,Louis materials.