Atlanta: junction of everything finest and most foul -- Chivalry's multiple meanings -- Voicing Black manliness -- Testing loyalties and identities in the crucible of riot -- Competing national constructions of manhood and mayhem -- Interracial cooperation's profits and costs -- God, give us men! -- Atlanta's reconstruction and America's racial transformations -- Disfranchisement, disunity, and division -- Building a nation of neighbors -- The ghosts of a riot past.