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September/October 1988

14 years ago By admin

Volume

39

Issue

6

Good advice on how to become President from someone who made it … seeking the ghost of John Brown at Harpers Ferry “ Frank Lloyd Wright’s tableware … and, as additional cause for Thanksgiving, more.

Stories published from "September/October 1988"

Inventing Modern Football

Authored by: John S. Watterson

SMU isn’t playing this season; men on the team were accepting money from alumni. That’s bad, of course; but today’s game grew out of even-greater scandal.

Flights Of Passage

Authored by: The Editors

Reflections of a World War II Aviator

Feud

Authored by: The Editors

Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900

Border Fury

Authored by: The Editors

A Picture Postcard Record of Mexico’s Revolution and U.S. War Preparedness, 1910-1917

The Pilot And The Passenger

Authored by: The Editors

Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States

Revolution At The Table

Authored by: The Editors

The Transformation of the American Diet

How Media Politics Was Born

Authored by: Greg Mitchell

To keep Upton Sinclair from becoming governor of California in 1934, his opponents invented a whole new kind of campaign.

The Secret Life of a Developing Country (Ours)

Authored by: Jack Larkin

Forget your conventional picture of America in 1810. In the first half of the 19th century, we were not at all the placid, straitlaced, white-picket-fence nation we imagine ourselves to have been. By looking at the patterns of everyday life as recorded by contemporary foreign and native observers of the young republic, and by asking the questions that historians don't think to ask of another time—What were people really like? How did they greet one another in the street? How did they occupy their leisure time? What did they eat?—Jack Larking brings us a portrait of another America, an America that was so different from both our conception of its past life and its present-day reality as to seem a foreign country.

The Dinner Party

Authored by: A. R. Gurney

For generations, it was the mainspring, the proof, and the reward of a civilized social life. Now, a fond student of the ritual looks back on the golden age of the dinner party and tells you just how you should have behaved.

A Last Hurrah: Portraits By Wiles

Authored by: Gary A. Reynolds

He was the best society portraitist of his day. But that day came to an end.

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