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Liberalism Overthrown

Author: Matthew Dallek

THIRTY YEARS AGO A HARD-FOUGHT gubernatorial campaign heralded the third great political upheaval of our century

Going Home With Mark Twain

Author: Willie Morris

WILLIE MORRIS revisits a book that nourished him as a boy and discovers that the landscapes the young Samuel Clemens navigated are in fact the topography of Morris’s own life

A Better Mousetrap

Author: Jack Hope

In a nation of inventors it has always been the single most invented thing. At this very moment hundreds of Americans are busy obeying Emerson’s famous dictum—even though the machine he exhorted them to build has existed in near-transcendental perfection for almost a century.

The Fate Of Leo Frank

Author: Leonard Dinnerstein

He was a Northerner. He was an industrialist. He was a Jew. And a young girl was murdered in his factory.