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  1. The Death Of A Hero

    By James Thomas Flexner, December 1969, Volume 21, Issue 1

    Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived More >>>

  2. It Happens Every Four Years

    By Roy F. Nichols, June 1956, Volume 7, Issue 4

    The political convention was devised to meet an unforeseen need, and now and then it has an unexpected result More >>>

  3. Business Of The Highest Magnitude

    By Robert C. Alberts, February 1971, Volume 22, Issue 2

    OR DON’T PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN RAM THROUGH TODAY More >>>

  4. The Abominable No. 2 Man

    By Bernard A. Wei…, September 1991, Volume 42, Issue 5

    It’s vice-presidential agony time again. President Bush’s heart went into arrhythmia, and the media immediately went into fibrillations of their own, with headline and top-of-the-hour stories on More >>>

  5. The Gospel According To Eve

    By Cullen Murphy, September 1998, Volume 49, Issue 5

    ELIZABETH CADY STANTON’S sardonic and biting protofeminist commentary on the Bible cost her the leadership of the suffragist movement More >>>

  6. Men of the Revolution: 14. John Hancock

    By Richard M. Ketchum, February 1975, Volume 26, Issue 2

    When one of the wealthiest men in the Colonies sided with the Patriot cause, he was called a “wretched and plundered tool of the Boston rebels.” More >>>

  7. The Cyclone Assemblyman

    By Edmund Morris, February/March 1979, Volume 30, Issue 2

    When Theodore Roosevelt—Harvard-educated, dandified, and just twenty-three—arrived in Albany as an assemblyman in 1882, the oldpols dismissed him as a “Punkin-Lily,”and worse. They were in for a shock. More >>>

  8. The Winds of Political Change

    By Kevin Baker

    … And Why You Almost Never Feel Them Coming The Democratic candidate was crushed. An urban, ethnic liberal from the Northeast, he had been caught flatfooted by the waves of vitriolic attacks that More >>>

  9. Crowder Tales

    By Nixon Smiley, October 1973, Volume 24, Issue 6

    Although readers won’t be able to find the town of Crowder on the map, Nixon Smiley assures us that there is such a place. “Youflatter me with the suggestion that I could have imagined Crowder,” More >>>

  10. There Was Another South

    By Carl N. Degler, August 1960, Volume 11, Issue 5

    Was the old South solidly for slavery and secession? An eminent historian disputes a long-cherished view of that region’s history More >>>

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