OVERRATED & UNDERRATED

Is Robert E. Lee getting a free ride? Is it time someone spoke up for Richard Nixon? And does anyone have the lonely courage to say that most barbecue is greasy filth? There are exaggerated reputations in every field of American history—and overlooked ones too. We asked the experts to choose which is which.

Ad Campaign
Architect
Automobile
Civil Rights Initiative
Criminal
Comic Strip
Economist
Espionage Novel
Fashion Trend
Financier
First Lady
Founding Father
General
Generation
Highway
Holiday
Invention
Kennedy
Motion-Picture Director
Movie Classic
Movie Star
Musical
Musician
Mystery Writer
National Park
National Turning Point
Poet
Politician
Presidential Scandal
Regional Food
Revolutionary War Hero
Satirist
Secretary of Defense or War
Self-help Movement
Sex Symbol
Songwriter
Space Achievement
Sports Moment
Team
War
Vice President

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Overrated & Underrated
AH October 2002

CORRESPONDENCE
AH October 2000

OVERRATED & UNDERRATED
AH May/June 1999