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August/September 1982
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Volume33Issue5
In a special section AMERICAN HERITAGE considers the peculiar glories of the American newspaper. Included are a scorching interview with the Washington Post ’s Ben Bradlee on the use and nature of power—his own, his paper’s, and the government’s; Robert Friedman’s history of the ever-embattled First Amendment; David Davidson’s celebration of the special qualities that made the old World the one paper every newspaperman wanted to work for; an insider’s view of the barbed charms of the country newspaper, revealed by a man who ran one—until he couldn’t stand it any longer. On the fiftieth anniversary of the most successful building complex of the twentieth century, we look at John Wenrich’s soaring, romantic architectural drawings—works of art in their own right- that prefigured the great urban space. The name of the worst of the Civil War prison camps lives on in literature, in history, and in infamy. But what was it really like? Charles Ferren Hopkins was a prisoner there and, in his recently discovered memoir—never published before- tells us about it in heartbreaking detail. A portfolio of famous photographic hoaxes; a memoir of Radcliffe in the thirties by Marian Schlesinger; and much more, all richly illustrated.