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Acknowledgments -- 1. Nonfictional narrative and the problem of truth. p.1 -- 2. Writing inside out: the nonfiction narrator in scripted and conscripted history. p.40 -- 3. Writing outside in: implicating the author in the narratives of Tom Wolfe and John Reed. p.76 -- 4. Reading inside out: rupture and control in the construction of reader. p.115 -- 5. Reading outside in: over the edge of genre in the case of Private O'Brien. p.164 -- Notes. p.195 -- Works cited. p.205 -- Index. p.213