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Contents: “I Hardly Know Truman” (Thus did FDR characterize the man who was to be his running mate in 1944 and – as everyone at the astonishing Democratic Convention knew – almost certainly the next President of the United States); What Made Lizzie Borden Kill? (On the hundredth anniversary of the unsolved double murder of Andrew and Abby Borden, is it time to ask: What was going on in that family); Lakeside (A little-known Art Deco masterpiece, this Denver amusement park was splendidly modernized fifty years ago and has remained basically unchanged ever since); What We Lost In The Great War (Seventy-five years ago this spring a very different America waded into the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century); The Greatest Athlete In The World (That’s what everyone agreed Jim Thorpe was at the 1912 Olympics, but draconian rules took it away) Departments – Letter From The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times; The Business Of America; In The News; History Happened Here; American Made; My Brush With History; The Time Machine; Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: July – August 1992
Condition: Very Good