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April/May 1985

14 years ago By admin

Volume

36

Issue

3

Stories published from "April/May 1985"

Baseball’s Greatest Pitcher

Authored by: Andrew Kull

It was a hundred years ago, and the game has changed a good deal since then. But there are plenty of people who still insist that cranky old Hoss Radbourn was the finest pitcher ever.

Ten Books That Shaped the American Character

Authored by: Jonathan Yardley

Walden is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook.

The Civilized Landscape

Authored by: Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.

While a whole generation of artists sought inspiration in the wilderness, George Inness was painting the fields and farms of a man-made countryside.

Dirty-faced David and the Twin Goliaths

Authored by: David Nasaw

One of the country’ more bizzarre labor disputes pitted a crowed of outraged newsboys against two powerful opponents: Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolf Hearst.

The Last Days of the Third Reich

Authored by: Joseph E. Persico

40 years ago, a tangle of chaotic events led to the death of Hitler, the surrender of the Nazis, and the end of World War II in Europe.

The Golden Age of Advertising

Authored by: Roland Marchand

The 20s and 30s saw a host of new ways to separate customers from their money. Those methods have not been forgotten.

A Century of Cable Cars

Authored by: William D. Middleton

Magnificently impractical and obsolete almost as soon as they were built, the cable lines briefly dominated urban transportation throughout the country.

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