Description
Contents: Letter from The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of Fiorello La Guardia); The Business Of America (Technology transfer); In The News (The hostage rescue: 1796); American Made (Game boards); History Happened Here (Fort Worth); The Time Machine; “I Had Prayed To God That This Thing Was Fiction” (He didn’t want the job but felt he should do it. For the first time, the soldier who tracked down the My Lai story for the office of the inspector general in 1969 tells what it was like to do some of this era’s grimmest detective work); Footnotes To History (Not every memorable historical moment is on a grand scale. Here, one of the finest satirical artists working today takes a look at some of the bizarre, true sidelights that add sparkle to the larger picture); The Public Schools And The Public Mood (Since the birth of the nation, the public’s perception of the quality of public schools has swung from approval to dismay and back again. An eminent historian traces the course of school reform and finds that neither conservative nor liberal movements ever fully achieve their aims – which may be just as well); My Grandfather, The Mormon Apostle (In this family narrative the author follows the path his grandfather took from a dangerous and dramatic youth to the highest echelons of the Mormon Church); Thomas Gilcrease And The Western Museum (Creek Indian number 1501’s art collection in Tulsa is a great monument to the American West and his people’s place in it); Postscripts To History (George Washington’s greatest living biographer examines some myths about the first President); Editors’ Bookshelf; Readers’ Album
Issue: February 1990
Condition: Very Good