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| Introduction | |
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| Huddled Masses: The Start, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island | |
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| Epic Aspirations: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge | |
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| Fairy-Tale Beginning: Women's Professional Start | |
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| A Deliberate Path: Men's and Mass Start, the Bridge to Bay Ridge | |
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| Sole Searching: Miles 4 and 5, Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn | |
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| Extra Letter, Extra Help: Mile 6, Fourth Avenue, Sunset Park, Brooklyn | |
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| Second Place: Mile 7, Park Slope, Brooklyn | |
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| "Gonna Fly Now": Mile 8, Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn | |
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| The Kenyan Mystique: Mile 9, Entering Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn | |
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| A Modest Mile: Mile 10, Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg | |
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| "Ain't No Stopping Us Now": Mile 11, Williamsburg | |
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| Blintzes or Bust: Mile 12, Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, Brooklyn | |
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| Details, Details: Mile 13.1, Halfway Mark, on the Pulaski Bridge | |
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| Barbie Goes to Jail: Mile 14, Long Island City, Queens | |
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| Putting It on the Line: Mile 15, Queensboro Bridge, Queens to Manhattan | |
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| Bond of Brothers: Mile 16, First Avenue, 59th Street to 72nd Street | |
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| Zoo Lake: Mile 17, First Avenue, 72nd Street to 92nd Street | |
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| Kings of Quirk: Mile 18, First Avenue, 92nd Street to 112th Street | |
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| On the Path of Pioneers: Mile 19, First Avenue, 112th Street to Willis Avenue Bridge | |
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| The Wall: Mile 20, the Bronx | |
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| Breathing New Life: Mile 21, Fifth Avenue, Harlem | |
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| Victory One: Mile 22, Marcus Garvey Park to 103rd Street and Fifth Avenue | |
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| Lungs of New York: Mile 23, Fifth Avenue to Central Park | |
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| What Price Glory? Ryan Shay (1979-2007): Mile 24 Sunday; Mile 5 Saturday | |
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| The Race Must Go On: Mile 25, East Drive to Central Park South | |
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| Making the Move: Mile 26, Central Park South to West Drive | |
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| Reasons and Revelations: The Finish Line | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |