The Story of Earl Nightingale and His Strangest Secret

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: The "Haves" and the "Have-nots"..................................1

Chapter 2: Pearl Harbor: Surviving the Arizona............................27

Chapter 3: War and Marriage.........................................................55

Chapter 4: Chicago: The Show Goes On.......................................77

Chapter 5: "The Strangest Secret"........................................ .......99

Chapter 6: Kidnapping and the Cigar..................................... .....125

Chapter 7: Of Tarantulas, Snakes, Hamsters, and Mayhem.......137

Chapter 8: Diagnosis: Acromegaly..............................................153

Chapter 9: His Own Jail Cell: An Occasion for a Party...............175

Chapter 10: Barefoot to Buckingham Palace.............................189

Chapter 11: A Cat Burglar, Alligators, and Parties or:

Much ado over a Porsche......................................................207

Chapter 12: Punta Gorda: the Peninsula Project.......................225

Chapter 13: South Africa: Apartheid and Wine..........................241

Chapter 14: Pearl Harbor Revisited...........................................257

Chapter 15: Carmel-by-the-Sea: Naked Man on the Street......265

Chapter 16: "A Man Who Lived the Life of Ten Men"................283

ï»ï»ï»ï»ï»ï»ï»ï»ï»ï»Outtakes............................................................................... ....301

Appendix A: The Strangest Secret............................................311

Appendix B: Timeless Quotes from Earl Nightingale................321

Appendix C: Lloyd Conant: This I Believe Article:

By Earl Nightingale................................................................343

Appendix D: Corporal Earl C. Nightingale .................................349

Appendix E: Major Alan Shapley............................................... 357

Appendix F: Sergeant John MacRay Baker...............................361

Appendix G: Lieutenant Commander Samuel Glenn Fuqua......365

Appendix H: Private Russell John McCurdy...............................369

Appendix I: USS Arizona-Reports by Survivors

of Pearl Harbor Attack.............................................................375

Appendix J: Earl's Letter to His Wife Mary from Camp Lejeune...389

Appendix L: Honey's Hand-written Genealogy.............................397

About the Authors........................................................................410