Issue
December 1969, Volume 21, No.1
Featured Articles
An Anniversary
Author:
The Death Of A Hero
Author: James Thomas Flexner
Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived
A Wooden Parade
Author: Mary Black
Letters from “An American Mother”
Author: Eric Lund
A Flier’s Journal
Author: Gen. George C. Kenney
The planes were fragile and the Boche was tough, but the girls were pretty, the wine was good, and death was something that happened to someone else
1857
Author: Oliver Jensen
Is it really true that the more things change, the more they stay the same? Once upon a time, before the bureaucratic society, before modern war and technology, there was a very different world, and not so long ago. Let us revisit, picking at random, the year
The Lonely War Of A Good Angry Man
Author: David McCullough
In the hills of Kentucky a small-town lawyer named Harry Caudill battles to save his homeland from the ravages of strip mining
Catastrophe By The Numbers
Author: Charlton Ogburn, Jr.
In terms of consumption and pollution, America is the most overpopulated nation on earth. We think we can afford it—but we are leading the world to
Field Notes
Author: Elizabeth N. Layne
Conservation Equals Survival
Author: Wallace Stegner
Wise men like Thomas Jefferson have always known how to live with the earth instead of against it. We need to develop a land ethic, with wise stewardship and a respect for the earth.