Description
Contents: Letter From The Editor (Repetitions); Democracy Delineated (Defining himself a ‘thorough democrat,’ George Caleb Bingham portrayed the American voter with an artist’s eye – and a seasoned politician’s savvy); Too Many Philosophers (A portraitist’s nightmare); She Had To Die (A fresh look at a classic murder); Trove (Treasure hunting on the Spanish Main); “Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday” (The Pulitzer-prize winning playwright recalls his boyhood in Fresno, California); Pop Laval (Fresno’s tireless cameraman); “Half Song-Thrush, Half Alligator” (The turbulent relationship between Ralph Waldo Emerson and his rudest, most rebellious – and most brilliant – protégé Walt Whitman); A Heritage Preserved (Past participation); “Rocked In The Cradle Of Consternation” (A black chaplain in the Union Army reports on the siege of Fort Fisher); American Characters (Thomas Dixon); Katmai (When Alaska’s Mount Matmai erupted in 1912, it nearly brought on a second ice age); Fraternal Arts (The ubiquitous signs and symbols of American Freemasonry); “Old Peabo” And The School (The Reverend Endicott Peabody of Groton); Now And Then (The 1914 analogy); Good Reading (Books we think you’ll like); Readers’ Album (Tank topple); Postscripts
Issue: 1980 October – November
Condition: Very Good