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Nation Of Gamblers
Author: J. M. Fenster
Once seen as a vice and now as a public panacea, the national passion that got Thomas Jefferson in trouble has been expanding for two centuries
A Signature On The Land
Author: T. H. Watkins
The naturalist ALDO LEOPOLD not only gave the wilderness idea its most persuasive articulation; he offered a way of thinking that turned the entire history of land use on its head
Make-believe Ballroom
Author: Wilbur Devereux Jones
A veteran recalls the everyday courage of a threadbare generation
Revising The Twentieth Century
Author: John Lukacs
THE GREAT STRUGGLES of our century have all been followed by tides of revulsion: Americans decided we were mad to have entered World War I; Russia should have been our enemy in World War II; the United States started the Cold War. Now another such tide has risen in Europe, and it may be on its way here.
Love, Jackie
Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony
The Johnsons and the Kennedys are popularly thought to have shared a strong mutual dislike, but stacks of letters and a remarkable tape of Jacqueline Kennedy reminiscing show something very different —and more interesting