Description
Contents: Correspondence; Letter From The Editor; The Life And Times (Of Samuel Clemens); The Business Of America (Rodgers & Hammerstein, Inc.); In The News (Credit and discredit); My Brush With History (The China Clipper); American Made (A Charleston rice-post bed); History Happened Here (New Castle-on-Delaware); The Time Machine; The Power Of Patents (For two hundred years the United States patent system has defined what is an invention and protected, enriched and befuddled inventors. As a tool of corporate growth in a global economy, it is now more important than ever); Why Benedict Arnold Did It (He marched his men to battle in the first hours of the war and quickly showed himself to be among the finest of the Continental commanders. America’s most infamous traitor could have been remembered as one of the great heroes of the Revolution – and in fact to the end of his life that’s just what Benedict Arnold believed he was); The Country Club (It has been with us for a century now, a haven to some, an outrage to others, often a bastion of snobbery, and perhaps the only nineteenth-century social institution to have carried on so vigorously long after the world of its founding gentry disappeared); “The Great Arrogance Of The Present Is To Forget The Intelligence Of The Past” (The maker of a fine documentary on the Civil War tells how the medium of film can evoke the emotional reality of history); Grand Illusions (For one exuberant decade John Eberson built “atmospheric theaters” that were part architectural history, part circus, and wholly enchanting to the audiences that sat beneath their starry ceilings); Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: September – October 1990
Condition: Very Good