Description
Contents: Letter From The President; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of Henry the Kid); The Business Of America (The revenge of the trust); In The News (The plan the East rejected); My Brush With History (What Eisenhower really said and other recollections); American Made (A Greene and Greene chair); History Happened Here (Sailing north); The Time Machine; Hunting Buffalo (A novelist turned compulsive traveler tracks a peculiar quarry all across America); The Powder Maker’s Garden (When Pierre S. du Pont bought the deteriorated Longwood Gardens in 1906, he thought that owning property was a sign of mental derangement. Still, he worked hard to create a stupendous fantasy garden, a place, he said “where I can entertain my friends.”); The Real Gold At Bodie (The author leads a search for hidden treasure in the amazingly complete documentary history of a California ghost town – the greatest of them all); Cather Country (A tour around Red Cloud, Nebraska, where the writer Willa Cather lived for seven years of her childhood, confirms the prairie’s continuing power to disturb and inspire); School For Sailors (A novelist and historian takes us on a tour of the Academy at Annapolis, where American history encompasses the history of the world); Return To East Anglia (It is to the U.S. Air Force what Normandy is the U.S. Army. The monuments are harder to find, but if you’re willing to leave the main roads, you will discover a green and pleasant land still eloquent of one of the greatest military efforts in history); Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: April 1990
Condition: Very Good