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Contents: What Can You Learn From A Historical Novel? (“Good writers write the kind of history good historians can’t or don’t write.” A long-time student of the genre seeks out the “real” history hidden in the mantle of fiction); Nat Turner Revisited (The author of the most controversial historical novel in memory looks back on its twenty-five year career); A Short And Scary Walk With Andrew Jackson (A new historical novel combines the great political scandal of the 1970’s with the great political scandal of the 1820s); My Favorite Historical Novel (American Heritage recently asked a wide range of novelists, journalists and historians to answer a question: What is your favorite American historical novel, and why?) Departments – Letter From The Editor; Correspondence; The Life And Times; The Business Of America; In The News; History Happened Here; My Brush With History; The Time Machine; Editors’ Bookshelf
Issue: October 1992
Condition: Very Good