| Conferences and Conventions: The $20-Billion Industry That Keeps America From Working | 4 |
| Kaufman, Walter Shapiro and Aleta | |
| Why Jimmy Carter Doesn't Hire Jimmy Carters | 12 |
| Peters, Charles | |
| The White House Press: Let AP Cover the Assassinations | 16 |
| Osborne, Tudi | |
| Memo of the Month | 23 |
| Tidbits and Outrages | 25 |
| What We're About | 26 |
| What Did You Do in the Class War, Daddy? | 29 |
| Fallows, James | |
| The Political Puzzle | 37 |
| Barclay, John | |
| What Politicians Really Want | 38 |
| Shapiro, Walter | |
| Down and Out On Capitol Hill | 42 |
| Levine, Arthur | |
| Taste, Class, and Mary Tyler Moore | 49 |
| Lessard, Suzannah | |
| Mary McCarthy-The Blinders She Wears | 55 |
| Fallows, James | |
| Political Book Notes | 64 |
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