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Contents: Letter From The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of H.L. Mencken); The Business Of America (Mephistopheles of Wall Street); In The News (The wrongdoers); American Made (The Carrig-Rohane frame); History Happened Here (Newport in winter); The Time Machine; A Brush With History (A special section on the thirty-fifth anniversary of this magazine); Out Of The Blue (Waiting for the Graf Zeppelin, 1929); Once In A Lifetime (Contributions by Gerald Carson, Allen F. Davis, Silvio A. Bedini, George Wilson Pierson, Barbara Gelb, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Richard M. Ketchum, Robert Heilbroner, Marcus Cunliffe, Herbert Mitgang, Walter Lord, John Kenneth Galbraith, Liz Smith, Mario Puzo, Thomas P. Hughes, Henry F. Graff, Thomas Fleming, Stephen E. Ambrose, William F. Buckley, Jr., Walter D. Edmonds, Louis Auchincloss, Samuel S. Vaughan, Barbara Goldsmith, Richard D. Challener, John Mack Carter, Alan Brinkley, William E. Leuchtenburg, Garry Wills, Philip Kunhardt, Diane Ravitch, Nicholas Lemann, David M. Kennedy, James A. Michener, Michael Korda, Frederik Pohl, Daniel Aaron, John Chancellor and John Lukacs); Triumph And Tragedy (In 1945 the villain had a face that was yet to become familiar); The Winter Art Show (Paintings of historical interest that for one reason or another didn’t make it into the magazine this year); When Our Ancestors Became Us (In 1820 their daily existence was practically medieval; thirty years later many of them were living the modern life); “Everybody Likes Italian Food” (The rise of American’s favorite ethnic fare from spaghetti and a red checked tablecloth to carpaccio and fine bone china); Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: December 1989
Condition: Very Good