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Plain Tales From The Embassy
, , , Issue 6“J. F. K. asked Arthur Schlesinger in strict confidence how I would like [the ambassadorship] … I did not learn about it for an hour or two.” Although the events it describes are very r More >>>
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The Big Road
, , , Issue 6Building the transcontinental railroad was the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century. Was it also the biggest swindle? More >>>
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Lincoln’s Plan For Reconstruction
, , , Issue 4Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage More >>>
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The Booth Obsession
, , , Issue 5The author joins the thousands who feel compelled to trace the flight of Lincoln’s assassin More >>>
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Prison Camps Of The Civil War
, , , Issue 5Andersonville was merely the worst of a bad lot; North and South alike, they were more lethal than shot and shell More >>>
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“… Especially Pretty Alice.”
, , , Issue 2During their courtship exuberant young Theodore Roosevelt puzzled the delicate Alice Lee, but they had three idyllic years of marriage before tragedy separated them. More >>>
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John Hersey Uncovers the Horror
, , , Issue 5The U.S. government managed to hide the magnitude of what happened in Hiroshima until John Hersey’s story appeared in the New Yorker, driving home the truth about America’s new mega-weapon. More >>>
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Adlai Stevenson
, , , Issue 6The first time I saw Adlai Stevenson was in July, 1953. After the splendid but massive failure of his 1952 campaign he had spent five months travelling, mostly in Asia. He had received world acclaim t More >>>
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Speaking Of Business
, , , Issue 4A sampling of the wisdom of Americans from Ben Franklin to Cameron Crowe More >>>
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Links With History
, , , Issue 2When you’re lining up a putt on the close-cropped green, there are ghosts at your shoulder. More than any other game, golf is played with a sense of tradition. More >>>