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October 1991
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Volume42Issue6
“I think one man is just as good as another,” he wrote, “so long as he’s honest and decent and not a nigger or a Chinaman.” Yet when the time came, Truman risked his career to fight for the first real civil rights legislation. William E. Leuchtenburg tells why.
In the bleak twilight of Castro’s regime, Neill Macaulay recalls his life as a revolutionist, and the political correspondent Georgie Anne Geyer reveals the truth about the dictator.
One day in 1950 a businessman found himself at the end of a restaurant meal without the money to pay for it. From his embarrassment grew an industry that changed the way we live.
Pioneering photojournalism in Colorado … American house styles: an 1683 dwelling that reflects a colonial society on the way toward revolution … and, as befits a season that celebrates bounty, more.