Confessions of a Mild-Mannered
Enemy of the State

Part 1 (1945-1969)
Childhood
How I became an atheist
Shimer College and first independent ventures
Berkeley in the sixties
Kenneth Rexroth
How I evaded the draft
How I became an anarchist

Part 2 (1969-1977)
How I became a situationist
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Contradiction
A fresh start
The “Notice” group
The breaking of a fellowship

Part 3 (1977-1997)
Japan and Hong Kong
The SI Anthology
Rock climbing
Rexroth again
Zen practice
Reading, writing, translating and music
How this book came to be

Table of contents of “Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State,” published in Public Secrets: Collected Skirmishes of Ken Knabb (1997).