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Featured Articles

There Is Something about a Martini

Author: Max Rudin

IT’S MORE THAN JUST A POTENT DRINK, AND MORE THAN THE INSPIRATION FOR SOME HANDSOME ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT. IT IS MODERN TIMES, BROUGHT TO YOU IN A BEAUTIFUL CHALICE.

Making Sense of the Fourth of July

Author: Pauline Maier

The Declaration of Independence is not what Thomas Jefferson thought it was when he wrote it, and that's why we celebrate it.

Cagney Did "Yankee Doodle Dandy" to Prove He Wasn't a Commie

Author: Fred Anderson

Locked in a strange, testy collaboration lit by the fires of a burning world, George M. Cohan and James Cagney produced a masterpiece of popular history in which everything is true except the facts.

The American Fireworks Fetish

Author: Jack Kelly

What lasts a couple of seconds, ravishes the eye, and calms the soul? Americans have known since 1608.

Lifeline to a Sinking Continent

Author: Robert James Maddox

American self-interest was involved, of course, but the Marshall Plan remains what some have referred to as a rare example of “power used to its best end.”