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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
PROLOGUE:
Take Me to the World
CHAPTER 1
The Mentor
CHAPTER 2
The Big Break
CHAPTER 3
What You Own
CHAPTER 4
Hollywood or the Token
CHAPTER 5
Permission to Fail
CHAPTER 6
The Turnaround
CHAPTER 7
Hamilton Act 1: Our Town
CHAPTER 8
Hamilton Act 2: The New American Dream
CHAPTER 9
Permission to Prosper
EPILOGUE:
Seriously
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
A Feiwel and Friends Book
An imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 175 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10010
FAILING UP. Copyright © 2018 by Leslie Odom, Jr. All rights reserved.
OUR TOWN by Thornton Wilder. Copyright © 1938 by The Wilder Family LLC. Reprinted by arrangement with The Wilder Family, LLC and The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2017944820
ISBN 978-1-250-13996-2 (hardcover) / ISBN 978-1-250-13997-9 (ebook)
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