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Contents: Letters To The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of Dorothy Thompson); The Business Of America (The other Sherman’s legacy); In The News (Did Prohibition fail? Reflections on the dry season); My Brush With History (When the Russians moved west); American Made (A Stiegel flask); History Happened Here (Las Vegas: an oasis); The Time Machine; A Visit With LBJ (An hour and a half of growing astonishment in how the presence of the President of the United States, as recorded by a witness who now publishes a record of it for the first time); Stalking The Animals (Some of the most compelling subjects in American sculpture aren’t statesmen, or generals, or nudes – in fact, they aren’t even human); Shell Shock (Time after time in this troubled century, our whole society has made itself forget about the terrible, invisible battle wounds once known as shell shock, later as combat fatigue, and now as PTSD – posttraumatic stress disorder); The Tropical Twenties (The shady courtyards, tiled roofs and white stucco walls of 1920s Palm Beach owed something to the style of the Spanish Renaissance and everything to the vision of Addison Mizner); The Road To The Future (Fifty years ago the builders of the Pennsylvania Turnpike completed America’s first superhighway – and helped determine the shape of travel to come. But this superb piece of engineering was built largely on the roadbed of a railroad abandoned in the nineteenth century); Stamp Act (Around 1900, American Bank Note Company employees were set to work creating collages out of the stamps and currency the firm printed. The results were spectacular enough to fetch more than half a million dollars at auction not long ago); Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: May – June 1990
Condition: Very Good