Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "Day-after-day heroism"
  • The Simple setting : the 1940s in the Chicago defender
  • The "Here to yonder" column : Hughes in two voices
  • Simple comes to life
  • Negotiations : finding a publisher for Simple
  • Readings and revisions
  • Simple takes a wife ... and Broadway
  • Simple claims the best
  • Simple's last moves
  • Conclusion : Simple's curtain call
  • Appendix A. "Here to yonder" columns, 1942-1949
  • Appendix B. Contents of Simple speaks his mind.