Issue

December 1969, Volume 21, No.1


Featured Articles

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

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.