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What Today’s Army Officers Can Learn From George Washington
Author: Don Higginbotham
Fear Of The City 1783 To 1983
Author: Alfred Kazin
The city has been a lure for millions, but most of the great American minds have been appalled by its excesses. Here an eminent observer, who knows firsthand the city’s threat, surveys the subject.
Ouija
Author: James P. Johnson
In 1913 the Ouija board dictated a novel. Twenty years later it commanded a murder. It is most popular in times of national catastrophe, and it’s selling pretty briskly just now.
Mother And Son
Author: Malcolm Cowley
Earthquake
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An all-but-forgotten San Francisco photographer has left us a grand and terrible record of the destruction and rebirth of an American city
How The Media Seduced And Captured American Politics
Author: Richard C. Wade
A noted historian argues that television, a relative newcomer, has nearly destroyed old—and valuable—political traditions
“If I Had Another Face, Do You Think I'd Wear This One?”
Author: Harold Holzer
…so Lincoln joked. Actually he was eager to pose for portraits.
Two Years In Kansas
Author: Warren P. Trimm
To get started as a prairie homesteader in the 1870s you needed uncommon reserves of strength, sanity, courage, and luck. Trimm had the first three.
Artists In Their Studios
Author: Lois Dinnerstein
As painting became a respectable profession in America, artists began to celebrate their workplaces