Chapter One: Chance, Narrative, and the Logic of the Cold War

Chapter Two: Aesthetic Responses to Political Fictions: Pynchon and the
Violence of Narrative Chance

Chapter Three: The Zemblan Who Came in from the Cold: Nabokov’s Cold War

Chapter Four: Accidents Going Somewhere to Happen: African-American
Self-Definition at Mid-Century

Chapter Five: The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the
National Security State

Chapter Six: Their Country, Our Culture: The Persistence of the Cold War

Coda: Cold War Meaning

Bibliography

Index