EDITORS’ BOOKSHELF

Editors’ Bookshelf

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May/June 1987

13 years ago By admin

Volume

38

Issue

4

Among recently published books that fall within our bailiwick, the editors of American Heritage have selected some outstanding titles.

Mutiny on the Amistad Wild West Bartenders’ Bible

Stories published from "May/June 1987"

N.C.

Authored by: Andrew Wyeth

The distinguished artist talks intimately about the art, the emotions, and the unique talent of his illustrator father, Newell Convers Wyeth

The Short, Dramatic Life Of The Steamboat Yellow Stone

Authored by: Donald Jackson

She lived only six years, but it was a history-packed career

The First Wave

Authored by: Alan D. Wiener

To this day nobody will take responsibility for the orphan dead of the 741st Tank Battalion.

A Few Parchment Pages Two Hundred Years Later

Authored by: Richard B. Morris

The framers of the Constitution were proud of what they had done but might be astonished that their words still carry so much weight. A distinguished scholar tells us how the great charter has survived and flourished.

Unexpected Philadelphia

Authored by: John Lukacs

A fond, canny, and surprising tour of the town where the Constitution was born

Interview With A Founding Father

Authored by: Garry Wills

James Wilson was an important but now obscure draftsman of the Constitution. Carry Wills is a journalist and historian fascinated by what went on in the minds of our founders. The two men meet in an imaginary dialogue across the centuries.

The British View

Authored by: Oliver Wright

A recent British ambassador to Washington takes a generous-spirited but clear-eyed look at the document that, as he points out, owes its existence to King George III

EDITORS’ BOOKSHELF

Editors’ Bookshelf

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