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Prescott’s War
Author: Morley Safer
A civilian adventurer gave us the best artist’s record of America in Vietnam.
John Wilkes Booth’s Other Victim
Author: Richard Sloan
When William Withers, Jr., stepped up to the conductor’s podium at Ford’s Theatre that April evening, he thought that the greatest triumph of his career was just a few minutes away.
Simply a Man
Author: Geoffrey C. Ward
Understanding the S&L Mess
Author: John Steele Gordon
At its roots lie fundamental tensions that have bedeviled American banking since the nation began.
A Black American in the Paris Salon
Author: Sharon Kay Skeel
In an age when the best black artists were lucky to exhibit their work at state fairs, Henry Ossawa Tanner was accepted by the most selective jury in France.
Father of the Forests
Author: T. H. Watkins
Ninety years ago, a high-born zealot named Gifford Pinchot knew more about woodlands than any man in America. What he did about them changed the country we live in and helped define environmentalism.