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Automobile Anniversary

March 2023
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I agree with John Steele Gordon about how far the car has brought us, but I think he strays into false nostalgia when he writes: “Unfortunately the spread of franchising in the 1960s and 1970s much diminished the regional diversity of American highway cuisine.” I remember all too well the diversity of roadside cooking in the pre-McDonald’s years: the fried chicken with its carapace of petrified lard; the dreadful regional variations that could be played even on so seemingly incorruptible a thing as the cheeseburger; the vegetables simmered in Vaseline early that morning (or that week)…

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Stories published from "February/March 1997"

Authored by: Robert A. Selig

CAPT. LOUIS FRAN’OIS BERTRAND DUPONT D’AUBEVOYE, COMTE DE LAUBERDIÈRE, served the patriot cause in the Revolution, did all he could to teach Virginians proper French manners, made love to the local women—and found every American inferior. Except for one.

Authored by: Frederic D. Schwarz

Women Who Smoke and the Men Who Arrest Them

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Stomping at the Kremlin

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

A historian of the ancient world believes that in every era humankind has reacted to the demands of waging war in surprisingly similar ways, and that to protect our national interests today Americans must understand the choices soldiers and statesmen made hundreds and even thousands of years ago

Authored by: James Brady

A young man’s journey from Brooklyn to the world, from boyhood to the glimmerings of maturity, from peace to war

Authored by: Stephen May

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