Issue

May/June 1992, Volume 43, No.3


Featured Articles

Hoovergate

Author: Barton J. Bernstein

On the 20th anniversary of Watergate, a recently discovered diary reveals a similar conspiracy four decades earlier.

How America’s Health Care Fell Ill

Author: John Steele Gordon

As modern medicine has grown ever more powerful, our ways of providing it and paying for it have gotten ever-more-wasteful, unaffordable, and unfair. Here is an explanation and a possible first step toward a solution.

Indy

Author: J. M. Fenster

Every spring, 30,000,000 Americans watch the Indianapolis 500. It’s the nation’s premier racing event and the pinnacle of a glamorous, murderous epic that stretches back nearly a century.

The House of Many Layers

Author: Alexander O. Boulton

The Colonial Revival was born in a time of late-19th-century ferment, and, from then on, the style resurfaced every time Americans needed reassurance.

“Dear Beatrice Fairfax…“

Author: Lynne Olson

America’s first Miss Lonely hearts advised generations of anxious lovers in the newspaper column that started it all.

Facing Death

Author: John Updike

Our ancestors look gravely and steadily upon things that we cannot.