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Meeting the Japanese Pilot Who Killed My Dad
Author: Francis R. Stevens, Jr.
Half a century after his father’s death, he struck up an extraordinary friendship with the man who shot his plane down.
Real Work in Deep Snow
Author: Tom Brokaw
Connections with childhood, with a way of looking at life, and with a generation that remade our world
Who Was Wyatt Earp?
Author: Allen Barra
From law officer to murderer to Hollywood consultant: the strange career of a man who became myth
How to Enjoy Christmas Without George Bailey
Author: Thomas Macaren
Here are 12 classic holiday movies worth seeing when you can’t sit through It’s a Wonderful Life one more time.
America the Apologetic
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Should our leaders say they’re sorry about slavery? About Indians? About their personal behavior? Such questions are hardly new; public contrition has been a national preoccupation for centuries.
Fly Me to the Moon
Author: Max Rudin
Reflections on the Rat Pack: Many people know what they did. This is what they meant.
Sometimes, Our Job Is to Say No
Author: Jesse Helms
The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee explains why it has always frustrated presidents, and why it doesn’t have to.