Foreword ix
Preface xi
1. Manners Acquired as a Child 3
2. Manners Learned While an Undergraduate 21
3. Manners Picked up in Graduate School 38
4. Manners Followed by the Phage Group 55
5. Manners Passed on to an Aspiring Young Scientist 72
6. Manners Needed for Important Science 94
7. Manners Practiced as an Untenured Professor 118
8. Manners Deployed for Academic Zing 136
9. Manners Noticed as a Dispensable White House Adviser 155
10. Manners Appropriate for a Nobel Prize 173
11. Manners Demanded by Academic Ineptitude 195
12. Manners Behind Readable Books 213
13. Manners Required for Academic Civility 240
14. Manners For Holding Down Two Jobs 259
15. Manners Maintained When Reluctantly Leaving Harvard 286
Epilogue 316
Cast of Characters 329
Remembered Lessons 343