Mr. Bojangles, Dance: Jerry Jeff Walker, Sammy Davis, Jr., and the Song That Made Nixon Cry

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface: Looking for Bojangles
• Part   1. “Love at first sight”
•   2. Who Is Uncle Will Mastin?
•   3. Holiday in Dixieland
•   4. “An honest lawyer”
•   5. “That’s my actor!”
•   6. Rufus Jones for President
•   7. “Dancing down the barriers”
•   8. “A quiet game”
•   9. “Are you a registered voter in California?”
• 10. “A time of pocket change”
• Part 11. “Drifting, poor, and searching”
• 12. “How can I follow this guy?”
• 13. “When your star is up”
• 14. “A blind song-and-dance man”
• 15. “The most dangerous man in America”
• 16. Don’t You Have Enough Problems?
• 17. “A call from Chicago”
• 18. “God is on our side”
• 19. “We gotta have laughs”
• 20. “Too many words … strange words”
• Part 21. “The folk process”
• 22. “Would you buy a used car from this man?”
• 23. “Get Sammy”
• 24. “A real clown’s act”
• 25. “I’ll buy the night”
• 26. “As long as you win”
• 27. “Weirdest day so far”
• 28. My Own Worst Nightmare
• 29. “Folkies born in a new age”
• Part 30. “Like some song you can’t unlearn”
• 31. “They’re not colorblind”
• 32. “How did that happen?”
• 33. What Were They Doing?
• 34. “As far uptown as I’m ever going to get”
• 35. “All kinds of prisons”
• 36. The Party of the Century
• 37. “Foolish in her eyes”
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index