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Contents: Letter From The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Grant and Sherman: “We are as brothers.”); The Business Of America (Real estate: where and when); In The News (The flap over the flag); My Brush With History (The day Babe Ruth called his shot); American Made (A Rockwood tile); History Happened Here (Visiting Henry Ford’s mind); The Time Machine; Connecting With Eastern Europe (Americans have always sympathized with the Eastern European countries in their struggles for democracy, but for two centuries we haven’t been able to help much. Do we have a chance now? A distinguished expatriate looks at the odds); How British Are You? (Very. The legacy of British traits in America is deeper and more significant than we knew. The author of a controversial new book explains how ancient patterns of life in Shropshire and the Midlands have continued to influence the way we live our lives and see our world); From The Greek (In its majesty and in its simplicity, the Greek revival house seemed to echo America’s belief in the past and hopes for the future); What Does History Have To Say About The Persian Gulf? (From the moment Saddam Hussein rolled over Kuwait, people have been trying to read the future in the Middle East by looking to the past. No recent crisis has produced more historical analogies – are we facing another Munich? A Gulf of Tonkin? A historian examines the record); Bennington Preserved (Since the camera first opened its eye on America, a succession of four superb photographers has been busy in one town. Good luck and a determined woman saved their record of a historic era in Vermont); Readers’ Album; Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: November 1990
Condition: Very Good