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Contents: Letter From The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times (Of Lyndon Baines Johnson); The Business Of America (Reforming the law); In The News (The abominable no. 2 man); History Happened Here (City of ships – Bath, Maine); American Made (The kast); My Brush With History (Melee in San Jose); The Time Machine; The Tyranny Of The Lawn (American homeowners have been struggling to remake their small patch of the environment into a soft, green carpet just like the neighbor’s. Who told us this was the way a lawn had to be?); Eakins In Light And Shadow (The man who may be America’s greatest artist liked to fend off the curious with the statement “My life is all in the works.” The works and the life take on a new poignance with the release of a once-private collection of his letters, photographs and sketchbooks); Have Our Manners Gone To Hell? (A controversial recent book suggests that what we think of as good manners is a relatively new thing, a commodity manufactured to meet the needs of an industrial age); My Search For Lyndon Johnson (The author found a man as unsavory as his detractors claim. He also found a man committed to fulfilling the highest ideals of this republic – and with the savvy to do it); Close Encounter (The mysterious thing that happened to Lieutenant Colonel Brown over Bremen in 1943 sent the pilot off to a quest that lasted his entire life); The Last Map Makers (Another frontier closes as the mapping of America approaches completion); Webster’s Unalloyed (Webster’s cartoons offer a warm, canny and utterly accurate view of an era of everyday middle class life); Editor’s Bookshelf
Issue: September 1991
Condition: Very Good