Coming Up In American Heritage

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February 1989

14 years ago By admin

Volume

40

Issue

1

Hollywood history They wouldn’t shoot The South’s inner civil war Plus . . .

Stories published from "February 1989"

The Best Of Georgian

Authored by: Alexander O. Boulton

The pilasters and pediments of an architecture perfectly suited to our eighteenth-century aristocracy flourish in today’s skyline and suburb

The Man Who Changed His Skin

Authored by: Ernest Sharpe, Jr.

30 years ago, John Howard Griffin, a white Texan, became an itinerant Southern black for four weeks. His account of the experience, "Black like Me," galvanized the nation.

The War of the Great Books

Authored by: Benjamin Mcarthur

What seemed to be just another tempest in the teapot of academia has escalated into a matter of national values and politics. Who would have believed that the choice of which books Stanford University students must read would create so much tumult? And that the controversy goes back so far?

Guy Pène Du Bois

Authored by: Jack Flam

He was a society painter in the first decades of the twentieth century. And nobody painted society the way he did.

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