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December 1992

13 years ago By admin

Volume

43

Issue

8

Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Historical Novels: The Readers’ Turn Announcing: The Cooper Prize

Stories published from "December 1992"

Fortress America

Authored by: Alexander O. Boulton

A Romanesque mansion in Chicago was built to forbid outsiders while providing a warm welcome to guests within

1842 One Hundred And Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Raise the Baton

1867 One Hundred And Twenty-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Patrons of Husbandry

1917 Seventy-five Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Good-bye, Whiskey, Good-bye, Gin

1942 Fifty Years Ago

Authored by: The Editors

Faces of the Enemy

The Radical Revolution

Authored by: Fredric Smoler

For years people have argued that France had the real revolution and that ours was mild by comparison. But now a powerful new book says the American Revolution was the most sweeping in all history. It alone established a pure commercial culture—a culture that makes America the universal society we are today.

The Home Front

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

It was bitter civil war, and a remarkable book offers us perhaps the most intimate picture we have of what it was like for the ordinary people who got caught in its terrible machinery

Private Flohr’s America

Authored by: Robert A. Selig

From Newport to Yorktown and the battle that won the war: A German foot soldier who fought for American independence tells all about it in a newly discovered memoir

Cigarette Century

Authored by: John A. Meyer

In the past seventy years, while several major diseases have been eradicated, one has risen from obscurity to take its place among the nation’s leading killers.

Our Checkered Past

Authored by: Edward Sorel

A fond ride through the bright high noon and on into the sad twilight of the American taxicab

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