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Contents: Letter From The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of Francis Parkman); The Business Of America (The man who wasn’t there); In The News (Post-mortem publicity); History Happened Here (The pearl of the south – Ponce, Puerto Roco); American Made (A Mimbres painted bowl); My Brush With History (Moscow memories); The Time Machine; The Conversion Of Harry Truman (“I think one man is just as good as another,” he said, “as long as he’s honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman.” Yet Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction – and in so doing he changed the nation forever); I Fought For Fidel (In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a fidelista up in the hills three and a half decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building. In an accompanying box, Castro’s biographer Georgie Anne Geyer assesses her subject’s long shadow); Credit Card America (How a businessman’s embarrassment – he ate in a restaurant and found he didn’t have the money to pay – made us a nation of instant, constant borrowers almost overnight); The Parson’s Hearth (The 1683 Parson Capen house in Topsfield, Massachusetts, a rare survivor from New England’s earliest days, testifies to the strength that would forge a nation); Memory As History (Seeking the truth of an event in the memories of people who lived through it can be a maddening task – as well as an exhilarating one); Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: November 1991
Condition: Very Good