Overrated & Underrated

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November 1988

13 years ago By admin

Volume

39

Issue

7

In my opinion, the most overrated Americans are the historians you interviewed. Historians always wind up believing they are much smarter than the people they dissect.

Stories published from "November 1988"

How We Got Lincoln

Authored by: Peter Andrews

Every presidential election is exciting when it happens. Then the passing of time usually makes the outcome seem less than crucial. But after more than a century and a quarter, the election of 1860 retains its terrible urgency.

The American Christ

Authored by: Patrick Allitt

He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus.

The Day Kennedy Was Shot

Authored by: Richard B. Trask

A routine chore for JFK’s official photographer became the most important assignment of his career. Much of his moving pictorial record appears here for the first time.

The American Automobile

Authored by: The Editors

Advertising from the Antique and
Classic Eras

Hoover Dam

Authored by: The Editors

An American Adventure

From Front Porch To Back Seat

Authored by: The Editors

Courtship in Twentieth-Century
America

America’s Junction

Authored by: Gerald Carson

All through the 1920s eager young emigrants left the towns and farms of America and headed for New York City. One of them recalls the magnetism of the life that pulled him there.

II. On The Town

Authored by: The Editors

Where do you stay? What will it cost? How do you get a drink?
Where to eat? What will that cost ? What’s playing? Is it a talkie? How many people live here, anyway? What kind of place is this? All the answers are here.

III. They’re Still There

Authored by: Marvin Gelfand

The great buildings of the 1920s are standing all over Manhattan, preserving in masonry the swank and swagger of an exuberant era.

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