Introduction: Welcome to Rockwell Land -- The Bird Man of Yonkers (1830 to 1888) -- Not a Norman Rockwell Childhood (1894 to 1911) -- The Art Students League (September 1911 to 1912) -- The Boy Scouts Versus the Armory Show (September 1912 to December 1913) -- New Rochelle, Art Capital of the World (1914 to 1916) -- Irene O'Connor, or Uncle Sam Wants You (1916 to 1918) -- Billy Payne (May 1919 to Summer 1920) -- Miss America (1922 to 1923) -- The Arrow Collar Man (1924 to 1925) -- Divorce (1926 to 1929) -- Mary Barstow (Spring 1930 to September 1932) -- The New Deal (1933 to 1935) -- Hello Life (Fall 1936 to 1938) -- Arlington, Vermont (November 1938 to Summer 1942) -- The Four Freedoms (May 1942 to May 1943) -- "Slowly Fell the Picket Fence" (June 1943 to Summer 1947) -- "We're Looking for People Who Like to Draw" (October 1948) -- Grandma Moses (1948 to 1949) -- Shuffleton's Barbershop (1950 to 1953) -- The Age of Erik Erikson (1954) -- Crack-Up (1955) -- Young Man Luther (1957 to 1959) -- Rockwell Tells His Life Story (1959) -- Widowhood, or The Golden Rule (1960) -- Meet Molly (1961) -- Rockwell Departs from the Post (1962 to 1963) -- Ruby Bridges (1964) -- Lyndon Baines Johnson, Art Critic (1964 to 1967) -- The Vietnam War (1965 to 1967) -- Alice's Restaurant (1967) -- Andy Warhol & Company (Fall 1968) -- The Brooklyn Museum (1969 to 1972) -- "But I Want to Go to My Studio" (1972 to 1978)
Summary:
"The long-awaited biography of the defining illustrator of the twentieth century by a celebrated art critic"-- Provided by publisher.
