EDITORS’ BOOKSHELF

Editors’ Bookshelf

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March 1988

14 years ago By admin

Volume

39

Issue

2

Among recently published books that fall within our bailiwick, the editors of American Heritage have selected some outstanding titles.

Radios: The Golden Age The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America’s Hospital System The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God

Stories published from "March 1988"

A National Monument to the Great Depression

Authored by: Ivan E. Prall

You probably haven’t seen it, but it’s out by the tracks of the Chicago & North Western.

Boston Rolls On

Authored by: The Editors

The nation’s first subway system was launched here in 1897.

Windows on Another Time

Authored by: Oliver Jensen

A man who has spent his life helping transform old photos from agreeable curiosities into a vital historical tool explains their magical power to bring the past into the present.

How History Made the Constitution

Authored by: Hiller B. Zobel

Every one of the founders was a historian who believed that only history could protect us from tyranny and coercion. In their reactions to the long, bloody pageant of the English past, we can see the framers’ intentions.

Dusting Off America’s First Dinosaur

Authored by: Richard C. Ryder

It was discovered in New Jersey in 1858, was made into full-size copies that were sent as far away as Edinburgh, and had a violent run-in with Boss Tweed in 1871. Now, after 50 years out of view, the ugly brute can be seen in Philadelphia.

The Rattle-Snake as a Symbol Of America

Authored by: Benjamin Franklin

Only one man had the wit, audacity, and self-confidence to make the case.

Where the Media Critics Went Wrong

Authored by: Walter Karp

The early critics of television predicted that the new medium would make Americans passively obedient to the powers-that-be. But they badly underestimated us.

Forts of the Americas

Authored by: Jack Rudolph

On their weathered stone battlements can be read the whole history of the three-century struggle for supremacy in the New World.

The Greatest Diarist

Authored by: Daniel Aaron

George Templeton Strong was not a public man, and he is not widely known today. But, for 40 years, he kept the best diary, in both historic and literary terms, ever written by an American.

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