Description
Contents: Letter From The Editor (Courtesy and calumny); The First Hurrah (Presidential candidates were far too dignified to plunge into personal campaigning until William Jennings Bryan changed everything in 1896); “American Art Really Exists” (The story behind the Metropolitan Museum’s new and dazzling American Whig); The American Wing’s Fifteen Finest (A portfolio); Sigmund Freud’s Sortie To America (How the Father of Psychoanalysis spread his gospel to the New World); Landliners (The apotheosis of the motor coach); The Revolution Remembered (Newly discovered reminiscences by the men and women who won our Independence); Out Of This World (The Shakers as a nineteenth-century tourist attraction); An Artist Among The Shakers (A portfolio of watercolors by Benson John Lossing); American Characters (William A. Brady); Hellen Keller – Movie Star (A strange episode in a great career); Freezing Time (The Klondike photographs of Clarke and Clarence Kinsey); A Heritage Preserved (Listening: Andersonville); The Philadelphia Ladies Association (Although it has been disparaged as “General Washington’s Sewing Circle,” this venture was the first nationwide female organization in America); Good Reading (Books we think you’ll like); Readers’ Album (Brim trims and Timothy redux); Postscripts
Issue: 1980 April – May
Condition: Very Good