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To stave off despair, the President relied on a sense of humor that was rich, self-deprecating—and surprisingly bawdy

The Combat Art of Albert K. Murray

Once again, Americans are learning the delicate art of trading with the biggest market on earth. Here’s how they did it the first time.

The sad story of a magazine born eighty years too soon

Secret recordings made in the Oval Office of the President in the autumn of 1940

George Washington’s Narrow Escapes

An Inquiry Into the Origins of Jazz

and plans a counterattack

—More than a century ago, the city of St. Louis enacted a well-thought-out plan to legalize vice. What went wrong? Everything .